[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] mw86:
Ill try to explain some of the things not clear on the installer. If i respond slow as i just did it's due to isp issues im having. I saw your post immediately but just got my net working again.

-1 " By the way how can I retain my current theme and install theTK mod... I mean at the beginning of installation it gives 4 different options (themes) to select from to proceed with the installation" this that you refer to does not install a theme to your phone. There is nothing to restore as this theme selection just changes the color/themeing of the TKmod installer you are in while in recovery. Changes to that them reset every time you use the mod it will ask the theme again for the installers theme only.

-2 " I forgot to change smd/smdexe files to .bak in system/bin"

I have not recommended to do that. I was describing the function of that. It was made for GS3. I have not needed to use one of those five rename options on my GS4 gti9500. I recommend hit none on the rename binaries.

*if you use it, it does what you were talking about and renames a binary for you to the name with bak added, not that you needed to do this. The restore option on those just removes the bak from it.

For gti9500 only

# try this method...

-select none on binary rename option for both rename and restore options.

-select none on the boot animation fix

-none on wipe battery stats unless you would like to as this works on our phone

-select install egl rendering mod which also has been made to work on our 9500

-select none on all the ktweaker backup presets

-select install build prop touchwiz

-select install systctrl initd

-select crossbreeder removal if you'd like to install the modded one without adblock/dns/wifi tether enabled automatically disabled for you after first reboot after getting to home screen and waiting 100secs.

Do not remove crossbreeder if latest is already installed and you want to use crossbreeder as is.

Select install modded crossbreeder after install completed and a reboot has been done onna second visit to the installer and you would remove it the same way by going back to the tkmod installer and selecting remove on the modded version etc and rebooting. The same goes for any installed options, simply go back to zip file and select remove on build prop or systctrl and finish installer and reboot.

-select any number of apps in our recommended apps section in the installer as they are all free on the market and unitd app for adding initd support without kernel support RyuInferno graciously allowed us to package it too since its not on the market.

-From there install happens. Hit save log for debugging purposes and finish. Reboot phone from recovery

-at boot all scripts start at 90secs so wait some seconds after that for all to finish at every boot. If you jumped right into things then, this could be the lag you described or it was not installed before. Please unlock screen at boot and allow screen on for atleast 2+min at boot for crossbreeder and any other aspects to start including our script to finish. Comadose logics are merged. So if you used that you should uninstall that then install this mod. Crossbreeder is uneffected unless you select to do something with it. The systctrl has all the comadose and our own tweaks all in one and crossbreeder has been kept on a separate install from the initd script.

Any questions feel free to ask.