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[Galaxy S 4 Active General] mnasledov:
Interesting! I'm getting more confident that a solution will be found soon enough. Thanks [MENTION=4315861]joshuadjohnson22[/MENTION] for all your advice, it's much appreciated.

A friend and I were discussing this. He has an ATT S4 (i337) user and seems to know a bit about Loki and how some of this exploit stuff works, wants to explore some partitions on the eMMC to figure out what the differences are. Convinced me to get a USB jig (should've had this ages ago) so I can recover soft-bricks if we get into trying things.

I've just been really worried about having a phone for myself that I don't know when I will want to really fully use. However, my wife just saved the day. She wants the S4 Active now and I'll gladly take her brand new S4. Not sure what I'll do with my T999 S3 now ... I think I love it too much to sell as well. I've gone through 4 phones now and haven't sold a single one, lol.

So I'm still in and not planning on getting rid of the S4A in the near future now. Even if I did flip it back, I promised $100 for the bounty and I don't take back promises. I think the phone is awesome.

I'm wondering, though, (sorry to go OT a little bit here) what people's experiences are with using this phone under water? While looking at some review sites, some people were speaking to the "terrible" build quality of it (how can it be worse than S4? seems unlikely) and also some problem with the headphone jack acting up while using underwater while traces of water remain there, since the headphone jack comes w/o plug.

Looking at getting a plug for the headphone jack at least. Can anyone chime in on the build quality or at least how usable it is for underwater photography (I know the 1m/30min limit)? Now that I'm trading this phone with my wife, I think she'll be using the underwater camera feature more. For me, this was more of a novelty and really meant more along the lines of, "Well, now someone can hit me with a water balloon and my phone won't die."
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] joshuadjohnson22:
let's hope he is willing to modify for our device. If it is based of TWRP we will run into the same driver issues that the international Active users had with a black screen. We will need to modify to allow the display drivers so we can see what in the world we are doing. It looks great, but hope we are included...
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] joshuadjohnson22:
tkaing the phone underwater is hit and miss. I used my first active underwater for hours and didnt have any issues. I just had to blow the water out of the mic but it was easy. My current active I dont think I will take that chance, it doesnt seem to be sealed properly. AT&T will replace the active 1 time if you bought it from them, this makes me feel better.

Taking the phone into the pool was SO much fun BTW, people looked at me like I was crazy lol
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] texassax:
SafeStrap is great. this is how I was able to flash ROMs on my Droid Bionic (my phone before the Active). if we can get that working for us, we should be golden.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] my-blue-snog-box:
I noticed some discussion in the forum for the S4 about bounty and implications thereof. If he is willing to, I guess there will need to be that discussion. BTW,

put me down for $10 towards the bounty

. I'd gladly contribute more if I could afford it, but I have a wedding to pay for.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] uvbeenzaned:
It is based off of TWRP...
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] joshuadjohnson22:
yeah, it is not hard to put the drivers in if you know what you are doing. But idk if he will
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] mnasledov:
Interesting. Since mine is second-hand off eBay I'm assuming I get zero warranty -- pretty much will have to deal with Samsung or 3rd party's repair prices. I'm OK with that. My wife broke her S4 screen the other week and with our insurance it cost $175 to replace. For that price I could've had it repaired. To be fair, they sent us a brand new device still in sealed packaging, so we got an extra battery, charger, and random goodies with it.

Thanks for all the great tips!

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We're talking Linux kernel drivers here? That can't be too bad to deal with. Either have to grab the module blobs or, if Samsung actually released the source (yeah, right?), could just compile them. Of course the problem with module blobs is versioning.

recovery has its own kernel, right? The only problem with module blobs is the versioning. But if it's just recovery kernel, I don't see much issue with making one for i537.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] joshuadjohnson22:
I'm pretty sure you wouldn't have a hard time talking AT&T or Samsung into replacing it. Make sure you do it over the phone
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] thatbigmoose:
International active has TWRP working so we can most likely use theirs.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] joshuadjohnson22:
I thought they only have cwm??
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] uvbeenzaned:
Lol josh apparently not if moose says so. :P jk

GS4A ST AT&T
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] thatbigmoose:
My bad lol I didn't even bother to check what they have.

Personally I like CWM better anyway :laugh:
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] joshuadjohnson22:
I wouldn't care either way but the thing hash is making is based off of TWRP. I'm excited to see what he puts together, looks cool
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] mnasledov:
So I had my wife call ATT International twice and they just gave her the run around since we aren't nor have we ever been ATT customers :( I didn't have time to call today as today was a super busy day.

Fortunately, my dad's an ATT customer so I had him call in. He spent about 20-30 minutes on the phone and got me the unlock code finally. I was pleased when I went to "About Phone" and saw it was on LTE :) It was funny, he had to pretend he was holding the phone and doing the operator's instructions while we were on chat and he was passing the instructions on.

So now I'm going to explore around some of the BL stuff with a friend in the coming days, though I can't promise anything =\

My wife has fallen in love with the phone and I've decided to trade my I537 for her M919 just so I don't have to put up with Samsung's ROM at all.

Thanks for the tip on getting the free unlock code -- was less troublesome in the end than doing SIM unlock and then the more complicated AWS unlock procedure.

EDIT: I definitely owe you a beer or something :)
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] mnasledov:
I had my dad (ATT customer) call ATT for me to get a device unlock code. All I had to do was put my TMO SIM in there and enter the number he managed to procure from their customer service (after 20-30 mins of being on the line and being bounced from person to person.)

So, doing the SIM unlock by entering a legit unlock code will do full SIM+AWS unlock. Doing the simple UMMS code / NV Restore SIM unlock method I hear will only give you SIM unlock, not AWS unlock. This means you'll get Edge but no 3G or LTE. Of course, you can do this really pain in the butt method afterward to get AWS, but the only instructions I've read require Windows from the look of it:

http://galaxys4root.com/galaxy-s4-t...aws-bands-on-att-galaxy-s4-sgh-i337sgh-i337m/ The instructions are for I337 but I537 users have reported it to work on their devices. The UMMS code is different, though.

[MENTION=4315861]joshuadjohnson22[/MENTION] suggested trying to get the SIM unlock code from ATT first which we managed to do in the end with great success.

EDIT: So, just to be clear, your device has *one* unlock code to rule them all. Their instructions are: Pop in a non-ATT SIM, wait for the device to ask for unlock code, and enter the unlock code they provide. You can also pay one of those cell unlocker services something like $30-40 for the code. Maybe there's cheaper places but that's what appeared to be the going rate for a device unlock code.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] popfan:
Just a reminder that SIM unlocking your ATT phone could be in violation of US law.... unless ATT give it to you
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] mnasledov:
This is unfortunately true. Well, I did it legitatimely (through ATT). I really hope they overturn that stupid law -- even the current administration came out in opposition to it.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] amanullah83:
Hello

Hello All,

I am new in forum and this is my first time i am in any forum. please help me for attachments and some rules about this forum

thank you all
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] my-blue-snog-box:
http://xdaforums.com/announcement.php?a=81
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] gamephreaker:
Waiting

I really don't know crap about unlocking. I want to get it done it I can help let me know. Sorry I would donate but out off work and going to school
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] Avail211:
Put me down for $50.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] greg2725d:
Put me down for $20. :good:
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] thatbigmoose:
I said this earlier in the thread:

The requirements for this are still kind-of unclear and as it stands right now, technically hashcode's safestrap does not meet these requirements.

First, of course the bootloader isn't actually unlocked. But you did stipulate that "It can also be a work around to allow custom recoveries, roms, and kernels to be flashed be the basic user:"

His method, at least so far, will not allow us to boot custom kernels. We will have pseudo-roms that still have to run on a stock, AT&T/Samsung-signed kernel. This means that let's say Android 4.3 is out on a lot of devices. We can't run it because we would have to wait for AT&T/Samsung to push an OTA so we could get a 4.3 kernel. Also, ROMs such as MIUI, CM and other AOSP-based ones will have to be modified to run on top of our stock touchwiz kernel. Hashcode said he was looking to load another kernel into memory and then soft-boot into that one from the stock one, if that works then all the requirements for the bounty have been met.

That said, I will most likely be donating to hashcode for his amazing work but the way you worded the OP, the requirements haven't been met and I don't think it would be fair to change the terms after the fact of everyone making their pledges. What you want to do about this is up to you, but for now we can just cross our fingers and hope he gets kexec working.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] joshuadjohnson22:
Hash said he doesn't care about getting the bounties and he wanted to keep bounties going for an actual unlock. I don't think it will happen so I may donate to him as well. I am more than happy to be GE 4.2.2 for now :)

I also recommend people donate to him after we get everything working properly for the device but it is up to the users
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] thatbigmoose:
I just said this in another thread but I'll just repeat it here:

We should be able to get the GE 4.2.2 running :D
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] echonc:
I wouldnt be to worried about the ATT kernel, in the VZW safestrap thread some Moto guys said there is a way to run different kernels, think it was called verelux(not sure on name). Sounds like it works similar to Safestrap, by high jacking the kernel after initial boot.

So once we have safestrap up and running, i see a ton of development coming our way.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] huggstown:
I'm locked in on this phone:crying:$100.00 ftom me.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] yankeesfan714:
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[Galaxy S 4 Active General] mnasledov:
Update on my experiences with SIM unlocked (by ATT) I537 on TMO. It's great but I just noticed that HSPA+ bands aren't working. I have an HSPA+ repeater here and we realized the phone isn't talking to it.

Doing some further research, the frequencies it repeats are being used by the I537 for ATT LTE but they are AWS frequencies for HSPA as well.

Need to follow this guide (about to do it) to get actual AWS unlock for the proper HSPA frequencies if intending to switch to TMO: http://galaxys4root.com/galaxy-s4-t...aws-bands-on-att-galaxy-s4-sgh-i337sgh-i337m/

LTE works great though :)

EDIT: Don't have to switch back to get ATT LTE after doing this, after reading the end of the guide :) This was a breeze aside -- major hurdle was getting over myself and using a Windows machine to do this. The QPST stuff did the trick!
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] V1C7OR:
XDA>AIR

This site got me from Novice luddite to Intermediately Semi-Advanced techy when I had my Epic 4G. Also, it has aspired me to be flasher of all things with screens....

Having said that...

Now that I have the Dopest of Dope: Galaxy S4 Active...

PLEASE Count me in for $20 on bypassing this Bootloader :cyclops:
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] yankeesfan714:
While most are concerned with the locked bootloader I am concerned about an Odin oneclick MF2 or MF3. I have been politely talking to people that can help us. I finally got an answer about some new Active stock roms. Names are blurred so as to not have people send hate mail ;)

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I537
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] joshuadjohnson22:
If you get it let me know the link so I can update the "restore to default" thread
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] yankeesfan714:
Fingers crossed bro.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I537
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] googlegot:
It CAN be done through samsung directly

I just finished a web support chat with a samsung rep. I was told that since I had a valid SIM unlock (I got it through AT&T), they would unlock my bootloader if I sent the device to them, but my warranty would be voided.

So basically, if you get a valid SIM unlock, you can get your bootloader unlocked, too.

Relevant portion of the chat below:

googlegot: I would like to obtain information on getting my bootloader unlocked. I have purchased this phone outright from AT&T, and already have the SIM unlocked.

Sophia: Are you referring to the Network unlocked on the phone?

googlegot: No, the bootloader for the operating system

googlegot: I have already unlocked the Network

Sophia: Thank you for waiting. I'll be with you in just a moment.

Sophia: Would you mind if I take 3 minutes while I gather the required information on your request?

Sophia: Thank you for being on hold.

Sophia: To get the boot loader unlocked you need to send the device to the Samsung service center.

Sophia: They will unlock the device to install the Custom ROM's on your phone.

Sophia: However when the boot loader is unlocked the warranty will be voided.

Sophia: Not to rush you, are we still connected on the chat?

Sophia: We have not heard from you. Do you wish to continue the chat?

googlegot: sorry, yes

googlegot: So, to get this straight, you guys will unlock my boot loader if I send the device to you?

Sophia: Yes, you are correct.

googlegot: Perfect, thank you very much. Is it okay if I pass this information to my friends as well?

Sophia: Yes.

EDIT: I am going through the motions with Samsung, but in any case, put me down for $100. Screw AT&T.

EDIT #2: Left my s4 active on the roof of my car. Completely annihilated. I have to buy another, withdrawing my pledge :crying:
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] gamephreaker:
Damn

That is one way I guess.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] huggstown:
This would be a great start to have a stock rom to fall back on.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] br0adband:
Now that's very interesting that Samsung would make such an offer, I wonder if anyone will take them up on it and then perhaps see about a proper dump that could be used towards other devices, maybe?

Sorry, didn't mean to crap up the thread... if a Mod thinks this is not appropriate feel free to delete this message entirely, thanks.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] :
Thanks for trying to do this for us. I for one appreciate it because getting mf2 or mf3 is extremely important to me right now. I know I'm a few days late on posting about this and haven't been to active on here lately but working seven days a week will cause a person to get a little behind. Thanks again for trying.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] yankeesfan714:
Would a i537 with an samsung unlocked bootloader help further development? Or it doesn't help at all?

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I537
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] joshuadjohnson22:
A method to unlock for all users.... yes. A single unlocked phone... no.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] yankeesfan714:
Gotcha.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I537
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] joshuadjohnson22:
Basically the bootloader is factory locked by samsung. This is near impossible if not impossible to undo without samsung (something about a key gen and stuff). If you have a device that has been unlocked all it really does is allow you to hack away but does nothing for the community. The only thing that it could help would be to have someone create recoveries and test them or if he knows what he is doing he can make roms but until we are all out of jail it will be useless
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] yankeesfan714:
Makes sense

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I537

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Could I at least pressure att or Samsung to allow my device to update to mf3 since this device is not under contract?

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I537
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] joshuadjohnson22:
You can try but I think they will either have no idea how to do that for you or say you voided your warranty by rooting. It would be a hard fight to win
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] yankeesfan714:
I wonder if I could tell them a while after purchase the phone would not boot past att logo. Took it to Att store and they wouldn't help me because I did not buy it from att. So I had no choice but to flash mf1. I guess that's worth a shot. Maybe there's a whitelist I can get my serial # on.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I537
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] joshuadjohnson22:
Who knows, I wouldn't lie to them just simply say you need to restore and the restore file is not available. If they try to get you to do it through you phone just tell them you want to use the computer to do it the right way.

EDIT: if they ask for a reason just say OTA wont work and you are stuck on a old version
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] yankeesfan714:
It did not work. I will be stuck on Mf1 till att sees fit

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I537
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] :
Don't give up just yet. Sammobile will eventually have mf2 or mf3. This isn't my first rodeo with a Samsung device. From past experience I have good faith that we will get it one way or another.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] yankeesfan714:
I am so anxious for safestrap and for a MF2 or 3 that I called and vented on att.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I537
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] Skizzy034:
I really don't care so much anymore about being able to flash a rom, I just wanna be able to do a nandroid and restore mostly. I mess with stuff too much when rooted that I would like that option and just the fact of being locked down sucks.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] dave5777:
I wonder if the Mexico version would work on At&t.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] pipirik:
tnx

thank you
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] darktony85:
If so, how could we update the phone with this Telcel firmware?

Kies or Odin cannot be used to update the phone.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] joshuadjohnson22:
We can't it will fail
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] yankeesfan714:
Samsung is not willing to help either. So it seems at this point Att and Samsung have resulted to finger pointing saying the other party can help me when truthfully none can.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I537
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] yankeesfan714:
And in other bad news. We may be locked out of all updates OTA or otherwise. But then again they could be bluffing

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I537
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] Diablo2424:
I just received my S4A last night from Amazon, in Dive Blue, I love this phone and installed Holo Launcher to get rid of the terrible TouchWiz, but this stock ROM is horrendous. I can help out a developer if necessary in getting them files or dumps or whatever to work on getting this bootloader unlocked. I have moderate Linux experience and run OSX and Linux on my PC's at home, so extracting files and stuff isn't an issue. I just rooted my phone and quarantined what I could to help, but it's still just the look and feel of this stock ROM that I don't like.

Hopefully we can get a dev in here to work with us on this, someone who's worked on the S4/S4A Int'l would probably be best, if possible.

Subbing this thread for updates.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] br0adband:
Hashcode released his GS4A version of Safestrap just last night, and it's at least opened up the potential of running ROMs now so that should hopefully kickstart some development for the device - and by "the device" I specifically mean the GS4A AT&T variant aka the I537 which is what I myself happen to have as well (in Dive Blue, no less).

I installed Safestrap only hours ago and now I'm toying around with the ROM featured here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2406177

Some aspects aren't functional yet because as Hashcode stated some of the kernel modules in the stock ROM are signed and with the custom ROMs there's a signature mismatch so they simply won't be enabled - the first thing I noted with that ROM running in slot 1 using Safestrap was no Wi-Fi which is something I hope gets addressed or I can find a solution for.

It's better than nothing, and it gives me/us something new to explore on this fantastic device.

"Welcome to the party, pal..." :D
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] besweeet:
Custom ROMs now? http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2447764
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] EvilTelephone:
I'm in for $10.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] Skizzy034:
I think you should keep this thread going. Safe strap is nice but a bootloader unlock would be ideal.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] Diablo2424:
I'm with him ^^

I actually am probably going to wait for an unlocked bootloader before I start loading up a new ROM on this phone.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] Skizzy034:
I'm afraid this is all we will get tho. =/ Which is way better than nothing.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] Diablo2424:
I definitely is better than nothing, I do agree, and I appreciate the work Hash and others have put into getting it to work.

Just personally, I'm still hoping we can get a dev to work with us in getting the bootloader unlocked. For example what happened to that member a few pages back who got the option to send their network unlocked device to Samsung to get the bootloader unlocked? Maybe we can pull that unlocked bootloader and figure out how to get it on our devices... if we can get a dev wiling to work with us, there's plenty of us who can dump what they need to work on it, myself included.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] TreyLWalker:
I'm a new user who can't post in development yet, but I wanted to let everyone know this procedure worked for loading a custom ROM (NOT flashing / bootloader crask) and all hardware working AFAIK) for my S4 Active i537 with the MF3 Kernel using Safestrap:

Procedure for my Samsung S4 Active i537 MF3 - I537UCUAMF3 - US, AT&T:

Installed Safestrap Recovery v3.5x - Safestrap-JFLTEATT-ACTIVE-3.5x-B08.apk

Installed Recovery, Rebooted into Recovery, Pressed Settings Key on Splash Screen Load

Created ROM Slot-1, Set it to active, Installed with the following:

AOSP Port GT-I9295 - Official 4.2.2 - I9295-PORT-GoogleEdition-V1.zip (worked for i537 despite saying otherwise, I still wouldn't flash stock ROM....)

MF3 Kernal Modules - jflteatt-active-MF3-modules.zip - MF1 Modules found in the same thread if you need them.

LeJay's S4 Active Camera Patch - SGS4A_CamPatch.zip

Reboot System, pressed continue at Flash.

Everything appears to work "OOTB": Phone, Bluetooth, Wifi, Stock Camera App /w Flash (video-recording preview is low-res, but records normal) and SuperSu Root.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] skeppley:
Thanks Trey, and welcome aboard.

Quick question before I try this out. Can all the files above, needed for flashing be put on the external SD card, or do they all need to be flashed from the internal card?

Wasnt sure if the SD could be read in recovery when using safestrap. This type of flashing is all new to me, as most of my devices were/are HTC.

Thanks