[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Absolon:
I wrote I don't have the energy to pull another project because of external issues and also that I doubt if it's worth to invest time into this.

This should have been done 5-6 months ago when we had a large enthusiastic bunch but as I wrote, that post was scuffed to the black-hole

called "General" where nobody look for their device specific posts, so we lost all those people who where willing to test and investigate.

2 days ago I make a test post where I lay out the problems that we have for a N9005-porting that if we had started back then we would be closer

knowing the problem but this time I got no response. The enthusiastic people are gone.

We lost the possibility to form a team. Simple and clear. You can look for yourself. It's in "General" on page 139 or so.

Compare that to what we have now. I hardly knew what and not what to write since pooling people was not enough device specific.

The only reason that you want to root your phone is to have the ability to change and go from the, not so hot Touchwiz and that means using

custom roms and kernels on it and then all the mods that makes the phone usable and interesting and "fun" to own. That will never happen.

DeHawk did a hell of a job just getting the 4.3 to work. We talk outside XDA and where he finds the time for it beats me. But even so, having

a plain vanilla Touchwiz is not what anybody wants but it's better then nothing.

Think people go and buy the "new" S4 knowing this? Think again. The poor ones that thought it was compatible where cheated!

The phone is now 7 months old. Note 3 was too keep up the vacuum that would have been during the fall and the I9506 came alone as the

replacement phone, built on the same production line since it was cheaper. All now wait for the S5.

There is NO, and I mean NO interest from any of the real "wizards" to even the slightest interested even looking in our direction so all is up to the

owners. Philz that does custom recoveries for a zillion different phones never even looked at ours.

And "we" are less and less since the forum went dead. What do we have 30-40 posts?

I sadly see people selling this phone on the Internet under it's market value just to buy a PHONE, 99% a different brand.

Ok, to your analysis then.

Since I lack the knowledge I hope you can help to solve the problem?

Could you please compare the kernels and look for differences? The voltage problem is something Philz warned about so I think we should take that

serious, right? If it's in the kernel it's great by maybe you have to reverse and peek at the ARM-asm since I truly don't know.

Other things that would help would be a cross of strace. That would aid a lot to see how it traverse between the user/kernel-space and is, as you

know, excellent for debugging. I think the community would really benefit from it. I assume you already have gdb compiled?

Could you also please turn on the debug-section in the kernel? So we could hook too the kernel and know what it does in kernel-space?

Almost forgot, since the phone does have a lot with kcryptd, it's imperative to know what they are used for. I think that cryptsetup (with LUKS) and

cryptoloop are both needed since there is no hints what it's using? Do you think they use the device mapper of use some kind of FUSE solution?

Lastly, since we saw some strange stuff with QEMM the userspace commands for that and KVM would be great to start to dig into that.

When I looked most of the dynamic libs where gone so I guess it must be compiled static, but we have room for that. You could always check it

with the link loader but you know that of course.

Can you have it ready by tomorrow you think? I'm sure that would boost peoples enthusiasm! And do good for the community!

Cheers,

Abs