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[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] philliplavelle:
Hello,

I wonder if you could help me. I'm going mad here. I've broken my S4 and I wasn't even tinkering with it, really.

I've had it since May.. When I set it up, I rooted it, but haven't actually used the feature for anything. I've been running stock kernel and ROM ever since.

I've also had that widespread issue that people seem to get all the time with SD cards where every single time you turn the phone off and on again, it comes up with a warning that the SD card is damaged and only a manual mount will fix.

It happened yesterday but on this occasion, my card wouldn't mount.. It just said that it was damaged and refused to mount.And that's when the trouble started.. i restarted the phone on multiple occasions, did battery pulls but it was just behaving oddly.. the camera kept saying 'camera failed' before and after the pulls (the SD card was out of it by this point)..the phone was overheating.. it kept on crashing..etc

So I did a reluctant factory reset.. It crashed several times in doing so and has now restarted without going through the Google welcome setup. That's because there are no Google apps on it.. there is no playstore and a thing comes up in the notification area telling me i need to install Google services but then crashes when I tap on it. I've sideloaded Google Play but it tries to sign me in and then crashes because it needs this Google Services thing.

I can't update the software because it's rooted so it comes up with a warning saying I have modified my device and don't have access to updates. Which means I can't take it back under warranty.

Without the Play Store, I can't access Triangle Away (which I assume I would need before de-rooting even if I haven't installed a custom ROM or kernel, just to remove any trace of rooting) and I can't download CWM to try to flash a new ROM to try to fix it myself.

I must also say I don't have access to a Windows machine to do anything on.. Just my MacBook Pro.

It's 30 degrees outside, I have a useless phone on my hands and I'm baking up here as I lose my will to live. Please, if anybody can help, let me know.

Thanks so much in advance.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BuT_TeR:
try reflashing to stock firmware using odin follow this http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=41072426

i dont think you will need this still .... if flashing back to stock firmware doesnt solve the whole problem try this....

here -- http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2060897&d=1371888678

apk for TriangleAway v3.00 install it using file manager on your phone.. :)

dont worry your phone can be unbricked * most probably * :good:
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] philliplavelle:
Thank so much for taking the time to help me out here. I'm gonna try all this.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] philliplavelle:
So, I'm stuck at the first hurdall.. I have no PC access.. Only my MacBook Pro.. I can't seem to find a working version of Odin for Mac.. the search on here brings up something called Heimdall.. Am I ok to use that?

UPDATE: Jeez, Heimdall looks complex! I don't think I can do it. It doesn't seem to want to play with the .tar files in the original FW I've downloaded and God knows how I'm supposed to extract it. This is way too complex for me. I am not exaggerating.. I have no access to a PC that I can use (other than my work one which has a strict IT policy stopping installation of anything on it.)

I'm looking around for Odin for Mac.. some places say it exists but I can't find an actual programme and I haven't a clue where to start with terminal. I'm a bit tech savvy - I'm not that much so though
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Obagleyfreer:
[MENTION=1043337]philliplavelle[/MENTION]

Here's a link to a Dropbox folder containing an app called Sgs4 flasher install this, with this you can flash the PhilZ CWM recovery .tar file (also in the same folder) and I have also included Triangle Away by Chainfire.

http://db.tt/IUnFGpP6

Once you have PhilZ CWM installed you can then perform factory reset, wipe data and dalvik. If that doesn't work then go to mounts and storage and format system, data and cache. BEFORE YOU DO THIS MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A FLASHABLE ROM. ZIP FILE ON YOUR PHONES INTERNAL SD CARD, DO NOT FORMAT SD CARD.

then you can go to install zip from SD card and flash new ROM :)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] philliplavelle:
Thank you for this. The file I have of the FW was downloaded from the post the first person who answered quoted. On my Mac, it's not a .zip file, it's a folder with a .tar.md5 file and another ssl one or something. Am I not able to flash these? They are not .zip. Apologies if I'm being extremely stupid.

UPDATE: Flashed PhilzCWM - but the phone won't enter recovery mode. It boots up, and the little tiny blue writing at the top implies it is going into recovery mode, but it doesn't. Screen just sits at black and then it vibrates again and goes to normal boot. :(

UPDATE 2: And now it just sits on the black screen with the words: Samsung Galaxy S4 GT-I9505 and tiny blue writing in the top left and doesn't do anything.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nudawa:
Just flash your phone with stock firmware and it is fine. Samsung still repair your phone for a fee. So if anything goes wrong take the phone to Samsung
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] philliplavelle:
Thanks for the response but as per the above post, I am unable to even flash anything because I can't get into recovery mode!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Obagleyfreer:
To go to recovery mode try two things:

Either press volume up+home and power and hold all 3, you will see the words 'recovery booting' keep all button held down still. Your phone will restart back at that i9505 screen and you'll see the blue words again, keep holding those buttons! You're fingers will be sore but this second time you should boot into recovery mode. Let go of buttons when in recovery :)

Or wait till you see blue writing the second time and when it appears wait 1 sec then release power button but still hold home ad volume up.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cameracartwright:
Tried mobile Odin from the play store? Then flash stock firmware from sammobile?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BuT_TeR:
Its not a meant to be flashed through recovery.... flash it using odin....donot extract it just flash it
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] jazzy4u:
my capactive keys back and home key not working ..im in gingerbread ...any solution for it....and my touch freezes when my phone in deep sleep ,while in charge i can use normally...now i have flashed the os ,now its working normally ...but problem will arise after some months..any solution for these two ...experts help me:confused::confused:
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] redflash52:
I'm not an expert but is a really strange bug.. maybe if you install some rom like FlyonGB in the development part, it will be fixed.. I'm not sure but you can try...
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] ASMI1:
Make XXKPE full install without root or diodex and check again....if you still face this problem there is a big chance it's related to the hardware:confused:

Btw, I am not an expert.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] saywhatt:
I got mine fixed by replacing the cable flex :p it was a hardware problem
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] roddem:
Greetings everyone,

Can someone please post the link to various basebands for our mako. I am having problem with the current one.

Any help is appreciated.

Good day
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fkrone:
Just look a few threads below you or follow this link: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=36400943
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] roddem:
yes i did actually just when i posted this thread, thank you for your help. ill remove this thread
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] pisisler:
It's been over a week I am struggling with this bullsh*t. Don't mean to be rude, just I am nervous, because I read countless of guides and Q&A's; but I couldn't make this work.

I am just and only trying to install a basic kernel/Rom, but no luck for about 1 week.

Sony Xperia X10.

I am using Flashtool .0.9.11, installed drivers selecting "Flashmode driver, Fastboot driver, Xperia X10 driver". Installation fine, on the device management, it's seen as "SEMC Flash Device". Flashtool recognizes the phone as ADB.

I flash the FTF kernel by placing it into firmware folder and running Flashmode in Flashtool. It says flashing was successful, but it still boots with the old kernel. And in the kernel selection list, it doesn't show the new kernel I flashed.

I try fastboot mode, but the hell it never accepts that the device has fastboot mode. I plug the phone closed pressing the back key while plugging; I try to update the SEMC Flash Device with the "fastboot driver" that Sony supplies, but it says its not a valid driver. Though I had already installed the fastboot driver from Flashtool/Drivers folder; but it insists on saying fastboot is not available.

Hell what now? :)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] pisisler:
Btw I tried Doomlard's modified Recovery which has the option "boot into fastboot mode"; I thought this time it's gonne be, but it just cut the power off; did not start back.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] karanrajkapur:
Upgraded to Windows 8 and didn't install the flash tool drivers for it?

say no to Drugs and ICS! :D
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] megatpanji:
What is your phone actually?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] pisisler:
I just realised by your question that I've posted in a wrong forum. The phone is Xperia X10i. I think it's not so much important anymore.
[General Topics] codex666:
Hello,

Is it possible to write batch files in CE? I would like to create a script to start a sequence of executables. For instance, start bluetooth, checkpoint and then TOMTOM.

Thanks,

Marco
[General Topics] DocteurN:
Yes that interests me too :D
[General Topics] unapproachable2kx:
Yes,there was a .cab in Sin-merged Rom 2003se for Himalayas about Dos.

Try check out the post.

PS: Don't use pocket dos.
[General Topics] DocteurN:
I find this :D

MortRunner

"With MortRunner, you can start, close, activate, and hide programs, and even remote control them to a certain degree.

It's more an hacker tool without a nifty interface, which can execute some kind of batch files..."
[General Topics] Mort:
Here you can d/l the latest beta. There's not much new there, but it might be useful for some...

- Includes a tool to support WM's autorun on storage card insert/remove

- Rotate command

- .mortrun extension only registered when started without parameters (to avoid it's changed to the autorun folder)

(Don't worry about the German forum, the zip includes an English manual)
[General Topics] DocteurN:
Mort > Thanks for your work :D

Is there a way to create a ".mortrun" file to mute/unmute the system sound ?

I'd like to do this to be able to use a shortcut to this file and so voice command mute/unmute via Microsoft Voice Command.

See this thread
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xHaster95:
Hi

How can i get more ram memory? with cm10.1 the phone is slow because there is low ram.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ElmirBuljubasic:
Try another kernel or try slimbean
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] darkknigh_t:
Change kernel or ideal change rom and kernel and use greenify from the playstore youl can have up to 200mb of free ram all the time :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 1Ishara:
Try super nexus rom with macay kernel

Sent from my GT-I9000
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] failly:
Use Greenify and hibernate apps that use much ram(Facebook etc).
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nitro_123:
Read up on RAM management. Android doesn't manage RAM the way YOU think it does...

Then follow the advice given here
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sheikh.hamzee@gmail.com:
Update to tiger jellybean 4.2.2 v5..
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] TheAtheistOtaku:
How would I go about doing this? I would like to sync folders of my choosing to my personal NAS server at home.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] crawler9:
Does your personal server support SMB? If so, try Foldersync in the Play Store.
[Ouya Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chewyboy:
is the wired networking like many of the android and arm devices running through the usb bus? also is it 100 or 1000? reason i'm asking is because of something i've noticed, i got the ouya like a lot to use for emulators and a multimedia box. so far i like it however when play certain movies over the network from any of my nas boxes i get hiccups playing the video. However when i play from a usb stick it plays smooth. It is not my network or the nas's. It is managed switched gigabit and the nas's are qnap and synology (atom core and above) they stream to any pc fine so again i'm sure that is not it so it brings me back to the ouya's wired network causing congestion for some reason. if anyone has input on this it would be appreciated.
[Ouya Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robinscp:
I also find that netflix etc runs choppy compared to my ps3
[Ouya Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gfdsaorg:
root@android:/data/data/com.teslacoilsw.quicksshd/home # lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0424:9e00

The first two are the built-in hubs. The last one seems to be just that, Ethernet controller. Or probably some combination of devices:

https://www.google.com/search?q=1d6b:0002
[Ouya Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zanzee:
It's 100mbit and yes its usb based, had I know they we're going to cheap out and not use the tegra3 phy ethernet I'd have probably not bought it. I have no need for playing off usb attached HD media thats what my diy freenas is for. The usb controller adds a huge amount of cpu overhead and maxes out at 12MB/sec before overhead.
[Ouya Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrOuya:
Highest priority

what i would do is check your router, and set your Ouya's Ethernet IP or mac address in the router to the Highest priority possible or if there is no priority levels you will have to set KB or MB manually. that should help. I hate using wifi for video
[Ouya Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chewyboy:
I will look into this, however having the bad feeling and now the verification that it is usb based really gets me down on this unit. Who knows maybe the cm firmware will do better but i doubt it, usb networking overhead will kill it. :(
[Ouya Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrOuya:
Highest priority: QOS

also Look for QOS or Quality of Service in your router that may have different settings like , browsing , video, p2p or files sharing, try the video or streaming option.
[Ouya Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chewyboy:
on a switched gigabit network not going to the outside world for files just internal nas's this isn't the problem. Thanks for the advice hopefully it will help someone else.
[General Topics] silverwolf6625:
Hey im trying to unroot my phone back to stock ROM but im not to sure how to if anyone could help that be great ok for some reason when i try to go in to the Recovery Mode it comes up with pink screen i restart phone works fine i can not get in to Recovery Mode
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Accessories] teisner:
I have the i-Carter case...very happy with it. I removed the Magnet, mainly because its turn off the device every time I did full flip of the cover...and It was almost impossible to work this way...

Anyway, what's the solution now for turn off the device when I'm closing the cover? does it drain the battery?

Please advice,

Tomer
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Accessories] _Dennis_:
Haven't tried myself on the note 8, but this app worked well on my note 2 until I cracked the screen.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.MarksThinkTank.FlipCaseControl
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Accessories] xamaba:
Your screen should turn off as per your time out setting in the Display Settings.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] varazir:
I just bought this haedset and I have noticed a bug that I think is caused by the phone and not the BTH.

I have few numbers that I block( sales persons ) and when they call the headset starts to loop the call.

I had to reboot the phone to clear the call.

Have anyone seen this problem ?

TIA

Daniel
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vanishanand:
Hello guys I am new here and my main reason to be here is that,, is there any kernel for I777 which can let us to charge non nfc battery in I777?, I use I9100 battery in I777 because nfc battey is not available here , phone runs good on this battery but when we connect charger phone goes in restart loop and don't get charged... Phone don't get charged even in switch off condition..
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ctg60000:
Slimbean

try slimbean. I am using i9100 battery in i777 n with slimbean it is working fine...
[LG Optimus Black] berga18:
I flashed izs rom following the instructions, i wiped cache and data, i made a factory reset and then installed zip IZS-v1 but after the reboot appear only te lg logo. what does it mean? please help me
[LG Optimus Black] vishaldhamnekar:
Have you flashed "Patched_V30_Bootloader_CWM.zip" or "IZS-Uv1.1.zip" after flashed IZS-v1 ??

Read once again Installation instructions carefully..
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lookin4somehelp:
Any fix for delay between video and audio on allshare cast?

I keep finding that the video is running a little faster than the sound when I mirror my screen watching movies via allshare cast.
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 General] dilipc:
Hi all.. This is my first post so obviously this is a newbie question! My XDA 2s is not able to recognize the name of my mobile operator here in India, and it shows up as "40468". Is there any tweak by which I can manually feed in the name of the operator so it shows up on the Phone screen?
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 General] dilipc:
Just to explain the issue clearly - the number on the top right is where the name of the mobile service provider should show up. Why does it show up as a number (40468) and not as a name, as it did on my Sonyericsson P910i, or indeed other phones? Grateful for any help in this matter.
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 General] xanth:
It's because basically each mobile phone operator is allocated a number (in your case 40468) and inside each phone is a tiny database of operator names/numbers.

I used to think that the operator "sent" the name, but a few years ago now a UK operator changed it's name from "Cellnet" to "BT Cellnet" and then to "O2", however phones wouldn't change. But if you had a newer version of firmware on your phone it would change (so that supports my theory that the database is in the firmware).

I think this also make sense because the operator isn't going to know how many characters are available for showing the name/abbreviating as necessary and so it makes sense for the mobile phone providers to keep their database in sync with the "main" one for who is allocated what as it'll make sure the information is displayed correctly as they can abbreviate as needed for each device.

At least that's how I understand it. So in your case it sounds like your phone doesn't know your provider. Perhaps a newer upgrade might help (1.33 or 1.40?), but I'd just ask your provider. If they sold you the phone it's pretty weird it doesn't support their own network. It might just be a faulty handset :-(

Perhaps post the name of your operator and we can see if anyone else is using them and it works for them :-)
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 General] dilipc:
Neil -- many thanks for your reply. When I bought this phone (unlocked) from Kuala Lumpur, it wasn't as yet available in India. Now it is, though. Maybe thats why it doesn't show up all of India's mobile service providers. Anyway, my mobile provider is MTNL in Delhi.

Upgrading ROM to 1.40 may solve the problem, provided its and "Asia" ROM. Is that available yet? Is it possilbe to "cook" the rom to add service providers?

Many thanks for your help Neil.
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 General] xanth:
Well you're using PH20B which is same as my phone is here in the UK and I'm running the 1.40 ROM so technically you shouldn't any problems. I'd wait for someone else to just verify either that A) What I've said about being stored in the phone is correct or B) Some one using MNTL in Delhi to confirm they have/haven't got this problem.

Because if it's a case of it's fine for them and ROM's are same etc it might be a faulty unit (can't really see how!) and a ROM upgrade might not help and since technically these ROM upgrades aren't always official (1.40 probably isn't) you'd probably have to put it back/find previous ROM before you could take it back.

Upgrading to 1.40 isn't really a pain, see the WIKI (top left) it's daunting at first, but it's actually very easy to do, but do it when you have enough time to reinstall everything because doing any sort of ROM upgrade does a hard reset as well (wipes everything in main memory - \Storage and \Storage Card are safe).

I can't guarentee that this would fix your problem, i.e. your provider is in that ROM, but not sure what else to suggest + 1.40 does come with Media Player 10 which is a bit of an added bonus! :-) You can backup your existing ROM, although it's probably already on the FTP, might be handy to have it in advance if you want to go back.

Hope that was some help!

P.S. If you decide to go down the upgrade route, probably worth upgrading your radio at the same time. I'm all the way to 1.12 and it's fine for me, but some people seem to have stayed with 1.10 because they've had some issues - search forum on this)
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 General] dilipc:
Neil -- two quick comments.

One, from using cell phones for the last many years, I feel that the code to decipher the cell provider's number is in the phone. This has happened to me before, when I bought phones which were not available in India, and it's happened again! It seems to me it's a ROM issue, as its logical for cell providers to be consistent (i.e. broadcast their identification numbers) and let the phones decipher them.

Two, is there any major danger that I'll lose the phone itself with a ROM upgrade? I know this has been answered in some other threads of this forum, but it'll be a first for me on this newly acquired beauty!

Cheers and many thanks....
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 General] mamaich:
example:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\RIL\OperatorNames]
"45404"="3-DUALBAND-"
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 General] BGK:
Hehe, big mamaich spoke... :lol:

Yup, those are PPC's: many things can be done by software... :wink:
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 General] Rayan:
This is odd...

Since I upgraded my MDA2 to 2.06.00WWE Radio: 1.14.00 I've seen this problem where the carrier name was changed to a number (in my case 334020).

On my previous ROM version I had no problem at all. And this device does not even exsist in Mexico and it displayed the carrier name (Telcel) without a problem.

I think the carrier name is taken from the network itself and fed to the registry but this particular ROM has problems taking this particular carrier numbers.

If I do a network search I can see the other carrier in my area (Movistar as a number also) and two other United States Carriers (Cingular and AT&T) but this time with their names (I live close to the United States).

To "fix" this I created a GIF file named carrierlogo.gif and place it on the Pocket PC Windows directory and now it shows a nice Telcel logo instead!...
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 General] dilipc:
@ Rayan

that looks good! Could you please explain how you did it? The first step obviously was to place it on the Pocket PC Windows directory, but what were the other fixes? Did you tweak the registry? Newbie question... I've been a XDA 2s user only for a few weeks Rayan!!
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 General] dilipc:
Mamaich speaks loud and clear! Yup, adding that additional string did the trick! I created a string for my carrier ("40468"="MTNL"), did a soft reset and Voila! It worked! Thank you Mamaich, thank you forum!!