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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] jev3gs:
Honestly I felt the same way initially. Then I asked myself what Android company am I going to buy then?

HTC - they typically have locked boot loaders (though the One does not)

Moto - Nope always locked and they don't make any cool phones right now.

LG - locked typically

Sony - wouldn't know since they have like No US phones.

So would I rather pay $600 for a phone with boot loader unlocked or $200 for a locked one, I pick the $200. I am assuming must people would also.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] highaltitude:
My take; I have had AT&T locked phones in the past and usually someone finds a way to either hack the bootloader or make a bypass, it just takes a lot more time. Still fun to have the phone and customize. Then I've also paid the big dollars and bought the international version unlocked phone. It was great because of lots of customizing, and support however if you run into a warranty issue you are screwed. Unless you know someone in the country your phone came from. I have an international SGS3 but a couple small glitches in the graphics and the worry of the bad system board that causes the instant black screen of death (or whatever it was) I started looking at the S4. I was ready to buy another international phone but it came down to features and actual function. I wanted 4G LTE. Well back when I bought the S3 there were 2 international SGS3 phones. I bought the one with LTE first (9305) turns out the frequencies the phone runs for 3G+ did not work with AT&T in the US. I had to sell it on eBay, forget having LTE, lose a gig of Ram and get the 9300. Then I decided about going back to AT&T and get S4 because I would be covered under warranty and I get all the features that are going to work where I live. Cool thing is its the same hardware as the 9505 so there's still quite a bit of customizing with the SGH-I337. For me it will come down to the features and what works for me in my area. I learned the hard way with the SGS3. Frequencies and no warranty.

Sent from my GT-I9505 converted SGH-I337
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] polish_pat:
just buy a canadian version, they have identical hardware and you will know will have full compatibility with american wireless networks
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] WoodburyMan:
I feel cheated. I paid $650 out of contract to AT&T for this phone coming from a iPhone, a locked platform I was getting tired of, especially with Jailbreaking becoming harder on it, for the reason to "play" with my phone. With a locked bootloader, and a carrier locked, I cannot do that.

In the world of DRM losing ground you would think they would learn? Moto dropping their locked boot loaders... DRM being removed from Google Play Music and iTunes... people are sick of it adding complication to their lives. I had a P3113 Galaxy Tab 2 7" WiFi only and loved it because of how open it was. Currently running CM10.1.2 on it. Yet their phones are so locked down.

It's not entirely Samsung's fault. AT&T requests a locked bootloader. Samsung provides. A bug around it is found, Samsung has to patch it from a security standpoint. Not their fault. However with the popularity of this phone they could have easily said "No locked bootloaders" and shoved it down AT&T and other carriers throats if they had the balls to do it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] zelendel:
They were not gonna miss out on the millions of devices sold just for the .1% of people that mode the device. That is why they came out with the GE versions.

Wayne Tech Nexus
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] WoodburyMan:
True enough. Had I known about the Google Edition I would have waited a bit. If I really wanted I could buy it and sell my current SGH-I337 for a little less than I bought it for. However I kinda wanted to retain the ability to run full Touchwiz / Stock based roms easily.

I'm still happy as I am now running CM10.1 on my phone, and running Goldeneye ROM if I want a stock full Touchwiz ROM. Flash AMF3 model.. and keeping my AMDL Odin package safe. Just had I bought the phone with AMF3 on it I would be totally turned off and be unusable for me because of patched Loki.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Slade8525:
personally, i mod or mess with everything. camera rigs i do myself, computers i build myself. cars i mod (and have rebuilt one with help) myself. my house i work on or change.

it is a fundamental hallmark of humanity that we change our environment and create or modify tools around us to suit our needs. so flashing ROMs or trying to customize or even just tinker with these devices is, in my opinion, simply an extension of what it means to be human, to create, express, and change. anything that limits that creativity is a bad thing IMO.

this is where locked bootloaders, fragmentation, and endless carrier variants become bad things, and where i do like apples' approach; one nearly universal product (hardware wise other than LTE/GSM/CDMA or storage size). However, apple is horrible for locked down software.

i will always root/unlock my phones as long as that is possible, because i can. i will always build my own computers, because i can. and i will always drive stick and for sure it wont be stock either; because i can.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] sholsten:
Thanks. I didn't realize T-mobile wasn't locked. I wish I'd known when I bought mine.

I wonder if things will stay the same on near new models like the Note 3.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] WoodburyMan:
Bingo. Same deal with me. Everything has to be played with and tweaked.

If I bought a brand new car, then if I put a Exhaust on it or something as simple as a intake.. I don't except for the car manufacturer or the dealer to stop the car from running. Even if it's leased people mod cars and just return them to stock when the lease is up. (Not that I would ever lease.. just relating to carrier contracts). Same thing.. if you aren't into doing your own maintenance, I would except to be able to bring my car and pay my hard earned cash to to any garage or person to be wrenched on, rather than just the dealer I bought it from. (Reference to using my phone I bought at AT&T on TMobile or any other carrier).
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] attn1:
zel - please read what he said more carefully. IMO he was right - Samsung was in the drivers seat - not AT&T. Samsung could have easily said "we're not going to lock our bootloaders" and AT&T would have caved. They would not think of missing out on the contracts and extensions selling this phone means to them. Samsung would not have lost a dime.

Samsung needs to remember who their customers are. They are not AT&T, or Verizon, or T-Mobile or Sprint. They are all of us; regardless of if the phone is financed via payment plan, via contract or purchased outright, they are our property and not the carriers.

Keep in mind that as long as carriers can lock down your device, they administer security and control information gathering - not you. I am not a tin foil hat kinda guy, but if you are, only being able to run a stock rom with no chance of controlling your own security must bother you, regardless of if you want to run a stock experience or not.

If we don't want more locked bootloaders in the future, we need to make sure we only buy phones with unlocked bootloaders now. If this matters to you, make sure that you make your voice heard with your wallet and your social media lobbying. You may be part of a minority, but it doesn't have to be a silent minority.

Because of such a non-silent minority, HTC has made changes in their security policies to allow bootloader unlocking, so don't for one second think your voice or your dollars don't matter. Let Samsung know you are not happy with them in every way you possibly can, and for god sakes, don't buy anything with a locked bootloader anymore.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] zelendel:
I am a tin foil hat kinda guy. Knowing this I do not buy devices that I have no control over. I mean if you worried about security why would you get a device that you have no control over updates that may effect security. Carriers are not known for issuing updates for the devices even if they are security updates. They lose out on a whole range of customers with an unlocked bootloader. Mainly Gov employees. With BYOD gaining traction companies want these devices secure. And locking the bootloader and giving it an unrootable kernel is their only way. So for those of us (less then 1% of the customers) that want to mess with the devices they offer a GE edition and a Nexus.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] attn1:
Bootloaders can be shipped secured and could be unlocked with a token from authorized personnel. Govt can easily control that - their range of bootloaders can be excluded from unlocking programs. Same build - everyone's needs can be met.

Carriers wishes should be irrelevant, and no sales would be lost. Bootloader unlocking is not sim unlocking, and sim unlocking is really what bothers carriers about BYOD.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] zelendel:
OK children time to take this name calling and insults back to the school yard and off of this site.

Wayne Tech Nexus
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] zelendel:
I will not repeat myself. The next time people will find themselves banned. Do not reply explaining yourselves, I dont care. It is over. It is not members job to defend themselves. There is a report button. Use it and move on. If you cant follow the rules you dont need to be here.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] mg2195:
You know, if theyre going to lock the bootloaders I wish they could at least follow htc lead. With their unlock program, you agree that you lose warranty, and they mark your device down and then let you unlock it so you and only you are responsible for what happens and warranty fraud is no longer an option to those that hard brick their devices as they have your device marked down for bwing unlocked. I am perfectly fine with that, as should everyone. To me its the perfect plan, it prevents noobs from messing around with things they dont know and bricking it, prevents warranty fraud due to bad mods, and best of all allows us here at xda to continue doing what we love.

Although if they do follow htcs lead...they can leave off the s-on/s-off - that thing is a nightmare...especially on the htc vivud which required you to short out your phone while running a program just to recieve s-off
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Slade8525:
what? had to short your phone to do it? thats crazy. HTC used to have easy bootloaders, or unlocked, but that was WinMo 5/6/6.1 days, in the mid 2000's. before the OH MY GOD IS THAT AN IPOD PHONE!?!?!??! came out. havent had an HTC since the Tilt/8925/Tytn II (still have it and still use it when i want to go retro lol).
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] mg2195:
Well the bootloader process was easy to unlock, just use their website...but they have an extra thing called security on/off aka s-on s-off. If you had an unlocked bootloader but were still s-on, yoi coild flash roms but you had to have a computer to flasha kernel as it had to be done through fastboot. S-off however allowed you to flash kernels and modems from recovery...so it wasnt a necessity but it sure was a lot more practible to be s-off
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] Cyber-mate:
I am using HTC Camera V2.50 (Build 15954). Everytime I start the application I noticed that the previous settings such as the light affect gets erased and I have to redo it by clicking settings and then shoot a picture!

Is this normal or there is a conflict? May be some reg. tweaking?

Anyone encountered the same?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jtpryan:
I am on the Verizon 2gb plan and typically use .5 -> 1.0 Gb per month. This has been for at least 6 months now. My billing cycle starts on the 7th and today when I checked my data usage I had already used about .5 Gb. Upon looking further I found that almost all of this was used by my SiriusXM app. Now, here's the thing, I have used this app for a long time. I only use it at home when I work in the evenings. I am always connected to my WiFi when home. Then I remembered I had noticed one time that I was home and saw at the top the screen the up/down data icon, then "3g", then the WiFi icon. I didn't give it much thought, but given this latest development I've been watching it and notice that it does the same thing on occasion. This is odd for 2 reasons. I have 4g coverage, and it should be off when connected via WiFi. If they are both on how do I know where the data is coming from?

This started after the last update from Verizon (I am not rooted). So I checked with them, but they had no knowledge of this and could only offer a "master reset". I declined. So, I thought in the meantime I would just turn off mobile data to be save. So I pull down from the top and turn it off in the bar at the top. It stays off until the screen times out or I plug in the charger, then it comes back on. I even set up a rule in tasker to turn it off when connected to WiFi, no joy. This is the ONLY tasker rule by the way, it wasn't even on the phone before this.

So, has anybody seen this and can you offer some suggestions?

Thanks,

Jim
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vavtnen:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=43528000&postcount=498

Thanks
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rex2369:
Do you have a GE HTC One or a converted HTC One to GE?
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] squabbi:
I think you can just flash the GE boot loader. :)
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rex2369:
Yeah I don't know what involves in flashing the GE bootloader.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vavtnen:
I have a dev edition converted to google edtion using full RUU
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] squabbi:
There is a guide in Android Development (Not Original) on how to do do this. :)
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cschmitt:
That's the ENG bootloader as version is 1.39.2000. Just Google for it, it's around somewhere.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vavtnen:
Thanks for the help guys
[Off-topic] Khilbron:
Bay Area news station KTVU just reported that the pilots of Asiana's disastrous flight 214 were the crack team of "Sum Ting Wong," "Wi Tu Lo," "Ho Lee Fuk," and "Bang Ding Ow."

http://gawker.com/ktvu-reports-asiana-air-pilots-were-sum-ting-wong-and-759185714

And for those of you who can view Youtube Videos, this is a must watch.

[YOUTUBE]C76T9_fThH0[/YOUTUBE]

I wonder If She studied at the Ron Burgundy Broadcaster School, because she totally read that off the prompter without even knowing what she was saying.

For anyone doubting the reality of their screwup, the same news lady came on air later in the day and issued this apology.

[YOUTUBE]BFDwgJa7JOI[/YOUTUBE]
[Off-topic] LoopDoGG79:
Lol, classic trolling of a local news station. Kinda sad that no one there realized they were being trolled. Kinda makes you wonder how creditable anything they say is, if they can be fooled that easily.

Just saw the apology, yeah, I'm pretty sure that wasn't a "NTSB' official that confirmed those names.
[Off-topic] ShadowLea:
This is why I love Autocue...... :laugh:

You can put so much crap on there, and they don't even actually read what they're saying, and if they do, they can't deviate from it anyhow! :laugh:

You should see Have I Got News For You (BBC), they occasionally (often) troll their guest hosts over the autocue, too. Hilarious! :laugh:

Send From My Samsung Galaxy S3 Using Tapatalk 2
[Off-topic] _Variable:
Lmaoo..
[Off-topic] anguy33:
Funny.:). But remember folks that the names were confirmed.
[Off-topic] dev1975:
Haha, classic!

This one had me in stitches as well, mainly due to the way she carried on as if nothing was amiss:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/robinedds/reporter-accidentally-draws-massive-****-and-balls-while-rea
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] ian619420:
I was on jelly bean and don't like it and i am trying to find 2.3.6 stock rom that came with my phone, i could only find 2.3.4 stock rom, is there anyway to get to 2.3.6 stock rom on i777 IMO it is a lot snappier for me than JB. can anyone please link me to 2.3.6 stock rom by odin?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Teknodad1974:
I777uclk3_i777attlk3

http://www.hotfile.com/dl/176507840/48f9870/I777UCKK6_I777ATTKK6_ATT.zip.html
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] 122ninjas:
You seriously need to learn to search. This is like your 6th question
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] creepyncrawly:
[MENTION=4722346]ian619420[/MENTION]

Judging from your questions here, and in the two private messages you sent to me, you need to learn more about the phone before you do any further modifications. I would hate to see you damage your phone.

The firmware you flashed, Entropy stock plus root UCKK6, contains a bone stock kernel, and a completely stock factory file system which has had superuser and su injected into it.

Please don't use anything from zedomax on this phone, as many have reported issues with his tools, some that were serious.

Use the Siyah 2.4.16 kernel. There is a .tar version there.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Teknodad1974:
http://www.hotfile.com/dl/176507840/48f9870/I777UCKK6_I777ATTKK6_ATT.zip.html
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] Bizarre48:
Hey guys, I noticed when I leave my S4 not plugged in when I sleep, I lose around 20% over night. I used the better battery stats and was just wondering if anyone can help me read it.

Thanks!!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] RAID Xero:
What ROM and kernel are you using?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] Bizarre48:
I'm using GoldenEye and stock kernel I believe
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] bigblue95z:
Power management is a generic process identifier. Partial wakelock should give better clue of what's going on and break it down, and looks like majority is that Alarm process for gtalk (don't know what this is, don't use gtalk). Google search processes to try to figure what they are if you don't know. Click on any '?' In the app to get more info on some documented processes.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] Papas_Con_Chile:
Can the s4 active be unlocked with the service mode menu?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] Papas_Con_Chile:
anyone knows?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] Papas_Con_Chile:
If you read the title of the thread you can clearly see that im asking for the s4 active, thanks.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] cre8er:
Been trying to do this using the servicemode method everyone is describing for the S4.

Phone will not go into the UMTS menu mode as described.

Some have said that a recent update killed this method?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] ravi_mytouch:
Yes. I cannot get into the service mode. The phone reboots.

---------- Post added at 09:10 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:09 PM ----------

Just to add to my previous post. Phone is s4, 4.3
[HTC First] kornklown69:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1908269

Fav modding app of mine use beta not alpha.. app fcs sometimes still works don't forget to push save after each mod and reboot
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] os2baba:
My Galaxy S3 hardly ever (if at all) displays a "Application not responding" message. Instead when an app is not responding, the phone freezes up for a few minutes (3-4 mins?) and then reboots. Sometimes it just goes into what seems like a permanent boot loop. That happen very infrequently though.

It's not any specific app. It happens with any app I have running that doesn't respond. I'm running stock+rooted 4.2.1. I have seen a few other reports of this happening, but no solution. There is some thought that this could be related to some IO problem. Maybe freezing while attempting to write to the SD Card or internal storage. I have s 32GB Class 10 SD Card. And I tried removing it. It happens even without the SD Card.

It's quite infrequent, but all the more annoying since I can't nail it down to any specific action on my part. Once it happened while I was on a call. The phone rebooted and then continued on the call! Of course I had missed the intervening 2-3 minutes while it finished rebooting.

Any solution I may have missed? I really don't want to factory reset my phone. It's not that annoying.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] sander999:
My Galaxy S3 hardly ever (if at all) displays a "Application not responding" message. Instead when an app is not responding, the phone freezes up for a few minutes (3-4 mins?) and then reboots. Sometimes it just goes into what seems like a permanent boot loop. That happen very infrequently though.

It's not any specific app. It happens with any app I have running that doesn't respond. I'm running stock+rooted 4.2.1. I have seen a few other reports of this happening, but no solution. There is some thought that this could be related to some IO problem. Maybe freezing while attempting to write to the SD Card or internal storage. I have s 32GB Class 10 SD Card. And I tried removing it. It happens even without the SD Card.

It's quite infrequent, but all the more annoying since I can't nail it down to any specific action on my part. Once it happened while I was on a call. The phone rebooted and then continued on the call! Of course I had missed the intervening 2-3 minutes while it finished rebooting.

Any solution I may have missed? I really don't want to factory reset my phone. It's not that

Try to uninstall 1 app and then reinstall it again see if that helps
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] prboy1969:
Boot into Recovery, Wipe Cache, Wipe Dalvik, Fix Permissions, and Reboot.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sportsinger75:
Hey all,

For some reason lately I've noticed that my Nexus 4 has been slowing down. At least it feels that way. It's been much more laggy than ever before, and its just not as smooth and fast. I haven't done a reset since day 1, so maybe that's why?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simms22:
thats could be. if you have root, wipe your dalvik. if you dont have root, then factory resetting will wipe your dalvik among other things.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lopezk38:
If you have root, try Greenify
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sinfamy:
Do you restart it occasionally?

Sent via Telnet
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] realtalker:
If you want it to work like day 1, back up your files and revert it to stock 4.2.2. I do it every now and then.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anazhd:
It's time to move on to any optimised ROM. :) I just got my N4 less than 13hours ago, and it's been running custom rom smoothly.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Roobwz:
Maybe try doing a factory reset :D hope that helps. If the problem still exist try flashing a custom ROM and see if that help :) good luck Buddy
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] sbillard:
I just got a nice "crock" textured replacement back for my S4. In comparing it to the original cover I notice a area just under the hole for the flash led that looks like it might be a printed circuit antenna. (it could be just the impression of such a circuit, no metal is visible.) The replacement case has a similar area, but nothing that looks like a printed circuit.

The back part of the phone has what looks like a pair of contacts that would in theory contact with this circuit.

Anyone know what these are?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] devoureddreams:
I believe its nfc
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] BamAlmighty:
NFC is built into the battery, not the back cover.

In this case it is nothing, but for wireless charging covers you would see the coil contacts there.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] LarryInMD:
I don't know exactly what it is, but if you go on YouTube to LE55ONS he strips down Samsung Galaxy S2, S3 & S4 and explains what every part is and does. Just search "Le55ons galaxy s4" on YouTube. Excellent tutorial videos for all hardware repairs, part identification and replacement.

-Larry