yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[HTC EVO 3D] thefunnyone:
hello everyone sadly i broke my evo 3d (i think it was my display) and the system is running. so, is there anything that i can do with my evo
[HTC EVO 3D] donkeykong1:
What do you mean exactly?

Sent from Mwakious powered EVO 3D
[HTC EVO 3D] thefunnyone:
i like to make that phone useful like tethering etc only the diplay is not working
[HTC EVO 3D] donkeykong1:
Try connecting it to your comouter and use your monitor as a screen

Sent from Mwakious powered EVO 3D
[HTC EVO 3D] thefunnyone:
HOW TO DO THAT:confused:
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] Doolittle Duckbill:
Lacking a dedicated forum for the (s4 active i9295 intl. version), I suggest collecting all information regarding root for this model in this thread.

We have learned that GeoHots one-click-root does not work on the i9295.

However, as the i9295 seems to have an unlocked bootloader, custom development should actually be easier for this model.

edit: just realized that due to s4-forum-confusion, this was posted in a sub-forum for canadian s4. To the Mods: Could you please put this wherever you think it should be? I just can´t make head nor tail of the s4-forum organization.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] joshuadjohnson22:
If your bootloader is unlocked this should be fairly easy. Just get a custom recovery flashed through odin and flash the root flash. I would look to the international S4 threads or tmobile threads.

What made the AT&T active so hard was lack of bootloader unlock

What I would try

1. Get the Odin flash for TWRP recovery for the s4

2. Flash it in ODIN and reboot into recovery

3. Once in recovery select reboot to system and it should prompt you to install root

DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK, THIS IS WHAT I WOUKD TRY IN MY DEVICE BUT I AM NOT A DEV
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] KennyG123:
Moved to S4 international General as requested
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] ElakNovAlamak:
Tried that, but recovery never boots on. Stuck on galaxy logo with small blue text upper left corner.

I used i9500 version of TWRP. The phone itself works ok.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] joshuadjohnson22:
Maybe clear the cache

Isn't the 9500 the octacore? I would try the i9505
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] ElakNovAlamak:
i9505 TWRP show same blue text, but shows black screen after that.

I think its time to wait some skilled developer taking this matter to his own hands. :D
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] Doolittle Duckbill:
The main hardware difference between i9505 and i9295 is:

1) camera, which obviously should not be a problem with recovery, and

2) screen (AMOLED vs. TFT) which might just be the issue we are dealing with here.

Does anybody know if TWRP can be reconfigured for our TFT size? I remember having similar issues with CWM for the Acer Iconia Tab 505 and 700, where different screen size in an otherwise identical unit rendered CWM unusable.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] ElakNovAlamak:
Yeah, now that you said it, thats exatly how it feels, black screen without any graphic.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] joshuadjohnson22:
Must be a lot different. Hopefully a dev will convert to this device. Has anyone tried cwm?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] Doolittle Duckbill:
hmm just checked... both are 1920 x 1080 so screen resolution is the same. I don´t think AMOLED v. TFT-LCD requires different firmware when resolution is the same... I hope Samsung has not changed memory management ... both are 2gb RAM / 16 gb internal

... **** ... why does it not work with i9505 recovery???ß
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] ElakNovAlamak:
I tried also CWM i9505 version. Same result as with TWRP i9505, black screen without any graphics or possibiliteis to use anything.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] joshuadjohnson22:
So odd, I guess you will need to contact the TWRP team and see if they can work with you to get it working. Has anyone tried a odin root flash yet?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] ElakNovAlamak:
You link it, ill try it? Deal? :D
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] reiter123:
root flash?

Deal ;)

http://droidow.com/galaxy-s4-active-i9295-update-with-xxuamf5-jellybean-4-2-2-official-firmware/

A couple of flash manuals for the s4 active refer to the CF-Auto-Root-m3-m3zh-gti9305.tar.md5
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] joshuadjohnson22:
tmobile s4 http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2294005

i9505 http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2219803

Do it at your own risk. I would recommend having the recovery odin available incase you have to restore

EDIT here is the direct download page, but see the i9505 page first for details on how to flash in ODIN http://download.chainfire.eu/316/CF-Root/CF-Auto-Root/CF-Auto-Root-jflte-jfltexx-gti9505.zip
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] ElakNovAlamak:
And we have ROOT! Big thanks to joshuadjohnson22. So just flash http://download.chainfire.eu/316/CF-Root/CF-Auto-Root/CF-Auto-Root-jflte-jfltexx-gti9505.zip with included Odin and thats it.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] joshuadjohnson22:
:) Good to hear. Now install goomanager and see if TWRP will work through that method
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] phoenixg36:
The twrp team working on a version for the active. The problem is the lcd sreen, he need a special driver.

So hope we will see a working version in some days.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] ipsuvedi:
Good news

Active should get seprate forum or sub fotum
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] joshuadjohnson22:
Where did you guys order the i9295 version of this phone? Through a carrier or unlocked? I would consider swapping my AT&T locked down one for it...
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] anbugge:
The i9295 is what you get in Norway, and I guess a bunch of other countries. Phones are usually not locked to a carrier here.

Don't know anything about the US market or how stores here feel about shipping phones there, though..
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] GyroFalcon:
I belive gt-i9295 is the international version aka EU-version. Guess you can get it at amazon.co.uk.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] Doolittle Duckbill:
Same in Germany. Only unlocked units of the i9295 for sale here. The only phone I ever had with a locked bootloader was the european Motorola milestone, where we had the reverse situation: unlocked in the US, locked in Europe.

As long as there are unlocked phones out there, I will never buy another one with a locked bootloader. Ever.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] anbugge:
I'm trying to figure this out, but I'm new to the Samsung world and can't really afford any bricking.. So, here goes, a bunch of questions:

Did you flash the zip as-is? Wouldn't that replace your recovery with a stock recovery from i9505 (that doesn't work since it expects an OLED display)?

Does "Odin Mode" live in the aboot or boot partition or something else other than recovery? If so, I guess it's OK to replace the recovery, since you can still reach Odin anyways?

Sorry for all the noob questions, I'm just trying to understand what I'm doing before I risk bricking my phone :P
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] rtoh:
The file should be "CF-Auto-Root-jflte-jfltexx-gti9505.tar.md5". I rooted my i9295 (S4 Active) using this file and it's working flawless! Use ODIN Version 3.04
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] anbugge:
Thanks. Great that it works for you, I think I'll try it myself tonight.

But what I'm wondering about is what actually happens on the phone. If you look inside the tar.md5, it contains two images - recovery and cache. As far as I can understand these two images will overwrite the recovery and cache partitions on the phone.

Based on that you saying it works, I guess that means we don't really use the stock recovery, since the recovery included in CF-Auto-Root expects another display.. Or did i misunderstand something?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] rtoh:
Only thing that I tried on my Active is custom recovery for i9505 and it doesn't work. For root, it definitely works and I remembered someone mentioned work on custom recovery for Active is on the way. So, hang on there and wait patiently.. :good:
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] anbugge:
Busy at work these days, but finally I got root :)

As I suspected, just using CF-Auto-Root for i9505 will leave you with an unusable recovery, since the stock recovery for i9505 is flashed in the process. Naturally, this leaves you with a black screen. Fine if you know the menus by heart, but I don't :P

I don't really need the stock recovery right now, but just for fun I picked out the recovery.img from the latest i9295 firmware release and flashed it, and it seems to work just fine :)
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] anbugge:
Turns out I haven't posted enough on these forums yet, so I'm not allowed to add a request for a new device in the CF-Auto-Root topic.

So, I'll just post it here, and hope that either Chainfire sees it, or that someone will point him here..

Recovery.img for i9295 is attached.

Apart from the recovery the version for i9505 works just fine, see my last post.

Thanks for your great work!
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] sgs2noob:
To those who have rooted successfully:

any change to the "Secure boot status" ?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] shahulvm:
Nope, am rooted on Internation S4 Active and the "Secure Boot Status" is the same as your screenshot.

Rooted with CF-Auto-Root-jflte-jfltexx-gti9505.zip
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] greeneyez15o:
How r u on the xx build ? I've tried n tried n can't update nor flash on odin
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] reiter123:
No this looks identical like in your Screen shot
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] anbugge:
What do you mean? I have the same build as sgs2noob (kudos for the most future proof nick ever, btw ;) ), this is what my phone shipped with.

I can also confirm that the Secure boot status remains unchanged.

Yesterday my Device status changed to "Custom", but now it has returned to "Official". I really don't know why. I planned to give Triangle Away a try, but didn't try that yet. And now it seems I don't need it :)

On a second thought, maybe this happened because I reflashed the stock recovery again?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] greeneyez15o:
Can I flash recovery img usin flash gordon app
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] anbugge:
I don't know that app. I'm a linux guy, so I used Heimdall: heimdall flash -RECOVERY recovery.bin
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] gabsinator:
Nice catch, care to share exactly how you flashed the recovery.img ?

Tried Odin, Mobile Odin, Rom Manager and fastboot, but I'm usure of the correct procedure..

---------- Post added at 03:54 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:41 PM ----------

Yaaay, *nix! Thanx man! :)
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] phoenixg36:
after you root the i9295 with the file for i9505 it have the wrong recovery.

So download the right stock recovery from the post above or from https://mega.co.nz/#!swx1EAhQ!EtoBAUUzMSXT-BEFbbj5dWgvGSc1MsNN7dQ6hyxvSAo

and save it on the root of the sdcard.

Then connect our phone over ADB or use a terminal app.

In the shell type:

su

dd if=/storage/sdcard0/recoveryfilename.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p21

you got it :cool:
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] radjad:
A quick hack here - I have successfully installed the TWRP recovery for the i9505, which works save for graphical output. The version working on my phone is openrecovery-twrp-2.6.0.0-jfltexx.tar through ODIN/heimdal.

I use the TWRP Manager app to provide a graphical interface in Android before the reboot and allow me to tell TWRP what to do. It's very hacky indeed, I know. It just also works. :p

Edit: Doolittle Duckbill is correct here; if you mess up the fw you have installed you'll be doing a full recovery flash in ODIN.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] Doolittle Duckbill:
OK, so you rely on the screen that is given to you by the firmware to tell TWRP what to do the next time it boots. If you then flash a firmware that for some reason does not have the correct screen driver for the S4 Active (e.g. a firmware that is for the regular S4) you end up with a blank screen in your recovery followed by a blank screen in your firmware - thats a lot of blanks :D

If the above is correct I would put a big WARNING here because a lot of people will end up flashing the wrong firmware with this hack and won´t have a working recovery to restore their backups.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] apd:
Help!

Sorry for the noobish question - I simply can't get the root to work. I downloaded the Chainfire file with Odin and used the Odin to flash. I select PDA and then the tar.md5 file. I hit start. USB debugging is enabled. If I try to do it with the phone booted into the main screen, it simply gets stuck on SetupConnection. If I do it from download mode, it fails, saying there is no PIT Partition. I'm sure I'm missing something obvious but can't figure it out at the moment.....! Forgive me - I've been in HTC land for the last few months so haven't needed Odin for a bit!

Thanks in advance
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] GyroFalcon:
You thinking of the file downloaded in this tread? It is important that ODIN is not marked by "Re-Partition", then it would check for PIT-file (witch you dont need in this case)

Does your Samsung S4 Active (i9295) work with Kies?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] apd:
I'm pretty sure I hadn't selected repartition but am going to try again now

Update: Bizarre - tried it on a different computer with the same settings and it worked fine. Now just to flash recovery. Thanks for the help.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] LeJay:
Just for kicks, I installed android 4.3 for galaxy s4. Unsurprisingly, the screen was black, but I did manage to take screenshot on the device and it actually booted up correctly. Obviously not clear what was working, Well, except that I did have sound. I wonder if it's a simple matter of putting the 9295 kernel on instead or what files need to replaced. Maybe comparing the s4 and s4 active firmwares can provide some hints.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] radjad:
Have you tried also flashing the stock i9295 kernel on top of that and then booting? I'm wondering if the screen handling is done at kernel level, and at the moment I'm just looking through the stock ROM for both the build.prop and kernel config differences.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] LeJay:
No, I needed my phone :), so I switched back to stock. Not hard, but took ages to download the rom. Right now trying to get CWM and maybe cm10 to run afterwards (more downloads and compiles). But it would be cool if we could pinpoint the things that needed to be changed to get the google experience rom working. It was cool to see it would actually just boot though.

Haven't played with android in almost two years, so the working is slow.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] Mastiff:
Incredible fast root, very nice, thanks! But I did have to change the shell commands a bit.

Just in case anybody else are a bit thick (took me 3 attempts before I got it right) this is the version that worked for me:

su

dd if=/storage/extSdCard/recovery.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p21

The card was called extSdCard, not sdcard0. This was with Android Terminal Emulator. I now have both root (which I mainly need for Titanium Backup) and a working recover. :)

Oh, and I had to tap the build number in the "About device" menu 7 times to get the Devloper menu in settings and activate USB Debugging for Titanium. Talk about easter egg in the summertime... ;)
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] baxxxx:
guide to root

Hello,

I'm not a totally noob: In the past I have rooting some devices, but with my new (expensive) toy I'm afraid of getting something wrong.

Is it possibile to have a guide step-by-step to rooting the s4 active (i9295 -nobrand from Germany)?

Thankyou...
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] anbugge:
Successful OTA

I just got an OTA, which was applied successfully. I used Triangle Away to get my device status to "Official", I had to turn on the "System modified workaround" to achieve this. I then disabled "System modified workaround" as instructed by the app and applied the update.

After the update I had lost root, oh horror!

So, I applied CF-Auto-Root again, and root was back. For some reason Super SU was not installed automatically this time, so I installed it from the play store. I flashed the stock recovery again (I picked the one from the new release, but the old one is probably still fine..), and everything seems to be fine :)
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] phoenixg36:
For all the want to flash the stock recovery over odin.

I make a odin flashable file:

https://mega.co.nz/#!EohVCa6Z!T7IGDFWgoElieDMBotxNRQVrq7Z2S6Y6e_MF7s_ABV8

Test it and report if it works.

Edit: the file didn´t work
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] Mastiff:
I feel dirty... I have been to Kom Dotcom's new service! Have to wash my hands for an hour now... ;) But seriously, it didn't work, sorry.

<ID:0/016> Added!!

<OSM> Enter CS for MD5..

<OSM> Check MD5.. Do not unplug the cable..

<OSM> Please wait..

<OSM> MD5 hash value is invalid

<OSM> I9295_stock_recovery.tar.md5 is invalid.

<OSM> End...

Tried to download it twice, no luck.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] Megolk:
the same here:

<OSM> MD5 hash value is invalid

<OSM> I9295_stock_recovery.tar.md5 is invalid.

:crying:
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] phoenixg36:
I make the file new, so can you try again?

https://mega.co.nz/#!poQR0ZTC!UGDsRVYPRRgcswjiaWiTek6mhFNOZJGrRkiNd1Iks4Y
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] Megolk:
thanks phoenixg36, but the same:

<OSM> MD5 hash value is invalid

<OSM> stock_i9295_recovery.tar.md5 is invalid.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] phoenixg36:
You use the mobile odin direct on the mobile?

I did it on my pc and it works.

So I make a zip file with odin and the recovery.

https://mega.co.nz/#!Uhg3kQiB!ONZn6CYXPoGfVP95ABjU2lNcjypcqVaM0GLRXn1Vf-o
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] Megolk:
no, i use odin on PC... i will try your file

Edit:

sorry, unfortunately the same:

<OSM> MD5 hash value is invalid

<OSM> stock_i9295_recovery.tar.md5 is invalid.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] phoenixg36:
OK I found the bug. The filename also checkt :eek:

This one works!

https://mega.co.nz/#!t4RUTYTS!LsuGGnL755YdK76avZn7TQo2qyJ1OQIeRXFd_KLE60s

Stock Recovery for I9295 to flash over Odin
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] aurelm:
Works like a charm, thanks a lot. I have root and stock recovery.

So to sum things up for the ones who need guide.

Flash as PDA :

CF-Auto-Root-jflte-jfltexx-gti9505.tar.md5

After that reboot, enter download mode again and flash

recovery.tar.md5

from phoenixg36 link.

And now you have root and recovery working 100%

Now hopefully we will have some nice roms or at least some neat tweaks (my interest would be in the warming of the horrible blue hue of the display :) ).
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] apd:
We need custom recovery first.... I wonder if a bounty would help?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] The-Dark-Knight:
Why flashing Stock Recovery? Doesn't that come with the i9295?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] baxxxx:
+1 thanks for you! :good:
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] apd:
Because the root method contains the wrong recovery so you need to reflash stock recovery for this model.

Also we don't yet have a custom recovery that works.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] aurelm:
Well since there is no official root for for i9295 and it's 95% percent identical to i9505 you can use that one. The thing is chainfire's root uses a custom recovery that is included in the package to be able to root). And that recovery accesses the display as an amoled and not lcd and you end up with an unusable recovery , unless you know all the buttons by heart . And that's why you need to flash back stock recovery.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] phoenixg36:
The custom recovery didn´t work at the moment :(

look to this post:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=44030626&postcount=7
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] LeJay:
Maybe, but I'm honestly just stuck with the freaking black screen. Hoped switching the kernel would help, but no dice. Don't even know where to look for the cause. Maybe something with a non standard framebuffer.

You *can* technically flash by using a recovery manager.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] Megolk:
it works...thx
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] weihong892:
just wanna check with you guys. i have already flashed the root and stock recovery. but how do i enter to recovery, i tried the vol up + home button + power button. But still does not work.

EDIT: SORRY MY MISTAKE, I DIDN'T CHANGE THE DIRECTORY.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] aurelm:
What directory ?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] Wolfman017:
Thanks for you mini-tutorial. Worked great on mine ;)
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] LeJay:
CWM is up: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=44174989#post44174989
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] greeneyez15o:
Can I flash this cwm using flash gordon ?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] LeJay:
It's galaxy s4 international only. Flash Gordon only allows flashing of files, not partitions, as far as I know
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] radjad:
http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/75768-galaxy-s4-active-i9295-incoming-soon/

Tanguy may be a useful collaborator.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] LeJay:
That's great news. Cm has been giving me a headache. He probably actually knows what he's doing. :)
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] radjad:
I'm hoping so. Given that your kernel config gets the display working, I'd hope that the camera is the only possible sticking point. Actually, could you send me the .config file that you used?

I may as well run a cm compile myself at this point to test things.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] LeJay:
Unfortunately it's not just a matter of the right config file. I took the jflteatt official build from cm10. Here you can set the 'correct' config files in

device/samsung/jflteatt/BoardConfig.mk by setting:

TARGET_KERNEL_CONFIG := cyanogen_jf_defconfig

TARGET_KERNEL_VARIANT_CONFIG := jactive_eur_defconfig

Edit: Config files are stored in arch/arm/configs in the kernel source code.

Your first problem is that this flat out wont compile. Even the kernel by itself wont compile. I think the kernel source code used fo s4 in CM wasn't mature for the active when it was released. So you need to fix the kernel source. Now, you can get the official samsung kernel souce for the international s4 active, but that isn't compatible with the cm10, so I wont recommend that path. My idea was to use the official kernel source from samsung to fix the kernel source code from cm10. Compile the cm kernel and fix each problem step by step. It was really a bit of a headache and all I got was a compiling recoverimage. The CM build just makes my phone go into a reboot loop.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] radjad:
Yeah, that does sound like a bit of a job. Fancy working together on this via github?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] LeJay:
Yeah, sure. I've been trying to figure out how to get it set up. Got cm to boot by the way. Touchscreen not working though.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] Epsylon3:
get normal cm-10.2 repo then :

. build/envsetup.sh
bib jfltexx

wait the end of device specific downloads

and add (or for the kernel replace) my repos then in .repo/localmanifests/roomservice.xml

<project name="tpruvot/android_kernel_samsung_jf" path="kernel/samsung/jf" remote="github" revision="jactive-cm-10.2" />
<project name="tpruvot/android_device_samsung_jactive" path="device/samsung/jfactive" remote="github" />

its not easy, because this device is shared with the S4 and qcom common devices folders

finally :

brunch jactive

# or for recovery.img only :
bib jactive && mka recoveryimage

First step done : recovery.img compiled with this common jf kernel source without any other changes in cm sources

... or with a "dd if=recovery.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p21" from another cwm
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] LeJay:
Hey. Nice someone else is working on this. I got cm running a few days ago, but im having issues with the camera. Is there a good way of figuring out which blobs to replace/add or is it just trial and error?

Did you get the camera working?