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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] rastapapa:
Is there a way to clear a new sms via its notification?

I keep running into an annoyance that I wonder if anyone has a solution for:

If I get a text message and am able to read enough of it via the notification excerpt, Id love a way to clear the new message that the messaging app stores as soon as I clear the notification.

in other words, I read the notification, and clear it. Then if I go to the messaging app, I still have an alert saying unread message. Because I read the message in the notification that I cleared, this feels redundant. Id love a way to clear both the notification and the new message flag.

Any ideas?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] dincdoes.me:
I'm a tech at a sprint store and heard some good news about android l which maybe news already known but L will be released 1st quarter of 15 for s4 and s3 shortly after I was shock the s3 is getting it. Take what I say with a grain of salt aka it maybe coming out from his ass but at least its a good future for us still :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] churchey360:
Its definitely an update we needed for the s4 lol the screen shots looked really nice and I bet there will be some awesome stock themed ROMs after its released.. and I'm really surprised that Samsung is even updating the s3 to lollipop big props to Samsung for that! :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] cRiMiNaL_Genius:
[MENTION=471880]dinco[/MENTION]des can you help me out with an issue, my phone keep promoting me to activate I can make or recieve calls without it popping up, if I try to answer the call is dropped my phone then says I missed a call and the person on the other end gets a busy tone
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] dincdoes.me:
Kind of hard to say with out seeing the device I would first suggest to take it into your local sprint snr center so they can better assist you. Have you recently put google voice or anything new prior to the issue?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] cRiMiNaL_Genius:
I'm not in the states the phone is unlocked for international use, I was hoping with you being a sprint tech that u could tell me how to remove that ZACT app or whatever it is that's trying to get me to activate
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] DjChubbs36:
New To This But Need Help Sprint to Metro PCS

So I have a Sprint Galaxy S4 (SPH-l720) and I want to change it to METRO PCS.

Im new to this but not illiterate when it comes to cellular devices. I just don't know where to start & what I need. it also doesn't help that im trying to do this on a Macbook Pro while all the info you guys have is for PC.

I would appreciate it allot if someone could please assist me or point me the right way so I can do this task.

thank you
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] mark@b:
L720T Echoe

Hi I had the same problem with my L720T unlocked I'm using it in Ireland. I rooted it, flashed twrp recovery and flashed Echoe rom for the i9505 onto it. Then just uninstall the zact app from /system/app if you didn't do a clean flash.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] sadvg:
WiFi not working hotspot nc6

I can get things to connect to my phone and even says have intermet then try to use and no data goes to.ps3 am using vanir rom
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] badreaper:
Can the S4 use network data while on the phone? Or is it ROM dependent?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] cruise350:
Only LTE and Wifi,if your on 3G you cannot surf and talk.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] easyrider77:
I could be wrong but I don't think lte does it either. I was on lte downloading a file and my daughter called. The file said download interupted. I re downloaded the file again with no calls and it did fine.

So I don't think the s4 can do data and talk at the same time.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] cruise350:
Oh, I now noticed your on a 720T version in your signature. You are correct, he 720T spark features do not allow simultaneous data and talk. The 720 version can do data and talk except for 3G.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] easyrider77:
Ah ok. Kinda makes sense, not to happy with this phone.

For me personally this phone has been the worst buy I've made. Very disappointed in it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] DizturbedOne:
I'm on the MF9 baseband with 4.2.2 stock ROM rooted via ODIN flash, did it about a year ago now. It has been running fine until recently, but I've been confused on how to update because of all of the scary talk about KNOX flagging me with an update all the time (unacceptable to me or my wife, we use our notification bar a lot) or getting the "flash counter" tripped, voiding my replacement service. I have no custom kernel or ROM installed, my recovery is also still the stock Samsung. What is the safest way to get back to the newest STOCK firmware?

(Going back to Nexus and never looking back after this)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] cRiMiNaL_Genius:
Thanks for the reply Mark. I was actually rooted and had twrp running prior to all this, however what I did to solve was pretty much flash a CM mod to the phone and inserted my phone number to the Mobile number field. the only issues I've had after that was where it seemed to take forever to connect to the network. and I couldnt use like the network codes to check credit and all that. As it is now I think its having a problem switching from tower to tower but i'm working on that as well.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] dincdoes.me:
I'm very happy to be using android L on the l720t version and I'm coming from the HTC one M8. I can't notice a difference this ROM is supper smooth!! Everything is working great too. And I'm sorry if you guys are asking questions about your unlocking your sprint phones to me I don't help with that.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] cRiMiNaL_Genius:
It wasn't an unlocking problem... The phone was already unlocked the problem was with Zact
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] dincdoes.me:
Ya see I'm unfamiliar with Zact never had to use it or research it b4. I already got yelled at for saying I worked fr the company and posting .. So many rules . anyway if anyone has question they can PM me or not others will be happy to help!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] 7AngelseveN7:
can you flash a at&t rom on sprint gs4?

hi I was wondering if you could flash a at&t rom on a sprint samsung galaxy s4, and if so what would I have to do?how would I port it?

the rom im wanting to flash is v36.1 echoe rom for the gs4

thank you (:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Qwanzauke08:
Then is this quote from omega droid false?

"Let’s focus on that fact. As we mentioned above, Devices like S4, S3 and Note II which came without KNOX will get the KNOX system.For example, S4 I9505 got about a month ago 4.2.2 update that includes KNOX-enabled system(MH1). If you try to downgrade to KNOX-disabled system(MGA for example) your device will be flaged as KNOX Void Warranty 0x1 and will get a special lock – you won’t be able to update to any KNOX-enabled firmware even by ODIN.* Samsung’s 4.3 update is KNOX-enabled, so if you tried to downgrade to KNOX-disabled firmware(for example MH8->MGA), you won’t be able to install 4.3 update.

This problem is only for devices which didn’t come with KNOX-enabled system from the factory(S4, S3 and Note 2)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] jtsrtr13:
Even if it is, my L720t came with 4.4.2 and was Knox enabled.

Don't think I'll have this issue
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] funkadunk:
Help with a bricked phone

I bought a phone off craigslist (clean esn) it had a Rom on it and was rooted, and i stupidly tried to take it back to stock even though i knew nothing about the s4 and long story short its soft bricked. problem i have now is i have no idea what software version its running. i can get into download mode and thats it. is there any way to look up which version it was on? getting this phone unlocked is important to me and i don't want to update it to a version that won't let me do that. any tips?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] yaoverstand:
Possible Hard Brick?

I have a Sprint Galaxy S4 that was running TWRP and the latest build of Slimkat. It began rebooting randomly, and just today, it will now not respond to the power button being used to turn it on. I can perform a battery pull and it will power on, but it will not proceed past the Galaxy S4 splash screen. I can get it to register the up volume button to attempt to send it to recovery, but it abruptly shuts off. It does the same if I use the down volume button to send it into the other mode. I'm hoping that you can help me get it back up and running again, even if it means going back to stock. I'm just not sure how to go about getting my pc to recognize the phone if it won't stay on.

EDIT: I got frustrated with the phone and let it sit while plugged into the wall (it would not accept a charge at this time). I went back after about an 30 minutes and did a battery pull and the phone booted to the lockscreen. I quickly rebooted and forced boot into recovery and flashed back to a 4.2 build of slimkat. It's been up and running for about half an hour and it seems to be ok now.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] jaybhatia999:
How did you unlock your 720t? I'm in India but not sure how to unlock GSM on it?

---------- Post added at 12:23 AM ---------- Previous post was at 12:15 AM ----------

I've got 720t, I want to network unlock GSM. I'm not in USA.. How should I do it?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] killerz298:
I just got my new phone set up, all apps installed and configured and I wanted to do a backup. When my previous phone died, I had a backup with TWRP but for some reason when I tried to restore it to my new S4 it wouldn't work. I read posts about the serial number being different in the backup so I changed that but it still wouldn't allow me to restore the data parts. Obviously I don't want to go through that again. I was reading somewhere about creating a flashable image of the phone that can be restored through Odin. Anyone have any info on how I go about backing up my phone this way?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] ROMANTiC KiD:
First you need to make sure your are using the same exact phone. Because there the sph-l720 and a sph-l720t.

Sent from my SPH-L720
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] dyandell:
You can do a flashable backup through Titanium Backup that is flashable in recovery. I do that often. I have never heard of a backup that uses Odin to install but there may be one.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] exeleon:
Hey all, I know it's probably been mentioned here. but I need to unroot one of my parents phones and pretty much bring it back to stock. It's an L720 with mf9 firmware currently using philz recovery and one of sac's roms. Whats the easiest way to go about reverting back to stock? (I'm walking my dad through this over the phone :) )
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] killerz298:
Yeah, it was def the same phone. When I went to reinstall the backup they didn't show up. Then I renamed the folder to the new serial number and the backups showed but not the system and data partitions. Those weren't options for restore.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Billw129:
Data issues in slimkat 7.0 stable

Hello all

I am going to try to be as detailed as possible because it just took me 30 min to get here. OK I have a sph-L720 running Philz and slimkat 7.0 stable. I am not in an let area and my 3g signal that used to be great keeps dropping down to 1x. I no longer have Internet at my house and I loaned my laptop to a friend that is out of state for a few months. That is the Computer that I had Odin installed on. So since I installed slimkat is when my data issues started and I want to either a. Go back to stock or b. Change my prl. I have another sph-L720 here and it is on prl 45020 and works just fine. My prl is 55019. So here is my question can I do either option a or b without a computer and Odin? If so how can I and where can I find the prl 45020 for my phone or the stock rom . From what I understand I can't go back to stock easily from slimkat. This may have already been discussed other aces but it takes 5 min for me to load a page and I tried for many nights to find an answer but it is so frustrating. Please if anyone can help be very detailed because it takes so long for me to just get here to ask more questions.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] joedarkon:
Poor Reception And Lack Of Responsivness

I have been using cyanogenmod for a while but I have been having issues on and off with it for a while. Currently the three main issues are poor reception, the phone seems to freeze up staying off or becoming unresponsive at the password screen when turning on the screen to use the phone as well has some apps freezing. I have just tolerated it so far but I am beginning to think it has something to do with my setup. Maybe I improperly flashed the ROM and or maybe I have the wrong radio flashed? I induced a link to my about phone screenshot. Any help would be much appreciated.

Cyanogenmod version

11-2014112-snapshotM12-jflte

android version

4.4.4

Baseband version

L720TVPUBNC6

Kernel

3.4.104-cyanogenmod-ge75a236

build01@cyanogenmod#1
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] dvdscott:
Does this phone freeze and reset itself a lot?

Currently I have a Samsung Epic 4g touch that I use and its on Android 4.0.4. It experiences a lot of resets and freezes to the point that its basically unusable. I've only had the phone overall for 10 months. I need to know, over time, if the Samsung Galaxy S4 commonly experiences these same freezes and resets or is that a thing of the past?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] ulremember:
Hello to all.

I saw a video how to put A Verizon Rom on any S4.

I was able to flash Echoe V39.1 with working wifi and data. I performed the APN Edit

My only issue was that I could not send any type of text message.

My baseband is NG2 and I am on 4.4.2.

Any sugesstions as to what i may do to correct this issue?

Thank you in advance.

Blessings
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] exeleon:
Anyone out there on Sprint give this a try yet? It looks promising.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2943934
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] StoneRyno:
I think that all has to do with what exactly you do with it. Technically all software as the possibility of becoming unstable over time. In the almost 5 years I have been on android I have had to do clean flash of the official or unofficial ROM once a year due to this more than not inevitable breakdown of the software. I have had far less problems with the S4 than my sprint epic 4G. I think most of the problems with the epic was it's significant lack of RAM. The G4 has 2GB of RAM far more than the epic had by a long shot. I have had my G4 (720) for almost 3 years and only had to perform a clean flash of the stock ROM once. I'm even considering rooting it again now that it is no longer under warranty I have no concern about the knox counter. I had previously had root prior to knox being added. But the software also hasn't changed a lot either. I think there was a new official ROM 3 or 4 times since I purchased it. And for the most part the apps I have installed are the same set of apps I had when I first got it as well with the addition of maybe 6 game and the removal of 4 or 5 non game apps that have become unnecessary.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] dvdscott:
Thanks for the response. I was kinda considering maybe getting the Nexus 5 instead but I'll go for the GS4. Thanks again.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] geunho:
Hi everyone. I am trying to help my father update his GS4 SPH-L720 from 4.2.2 to 4.4.2 and am a bit overwhelmed - the GS4 is nothing like my Nexus 5.

Apparently, a friend of his rooted his device and I can see that his GS4 has TWRP 2.6.1.0 recovery. I just want to update his device so that he is able to use an Android Wear device he received as a gift. Is there a flashable zip to update to a a stock version of 4.4.2? If not, what would be the easiest method to update? And lastly, will he lose his data currently on the device after updating?

Thank you in advance for your help.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] dh350nwo:
I posted basically the same question here: http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s4-sprint/help/easiest-method-to-mdl-to-4-3-stock-rom-t2973559

Can we get some help please???
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] xbladephantom:
Stuck on Galaxy screen

I have TWRP as my custom recovery, and Cyanogenmod 11 Nightly 12/16 as my OS. The problem is that every time that I try to reboot my phone it gets stuck on the galaxy screen and it won't go any farther then that, so I have to reset my device and reflash everything. Is there anything that I can do to keep it from doing this? Cause I'm tired of doing that every time and losing all of my data.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] levyathos:
HELP!!!

Hi,

I've been subscribed to the forum long since I had an HTC EVO. It was a great phone and uper easy to do whatever you wanted, to the point that

i bricked it twice, and i was able to recover easy as hell.

I've been dealing with my wife's SPH-L720T GS4, and it was doing fine, until last night when I tried to flash the SUPER S4 DEODEXED ROM and it all went downhill from there.

Ever since I flash CWM few months ago, I haven't been able to reflash back to stock or install any other recovery like TWRP or nothing and I know it has to do with this:

When I place the phone on Download mode, this is what the top left corner says;

ODIN MODE

PRODUCT NAME: SPH-L720T

CURRENT BINARY: Custom

SYSTEM STATUS: Custom

KNOX KERNEL LOCK: 0x0

KNOX WARRANTY VOID: 0x1

CSB-CONFIG-LS0: 0x30

WRITE PROTECTION: Enable

eMMC BURST MODE enabled

Any information will be highly appreciated.

Thanks for your time

Respectfully,
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] killerz298:
What is the problem? Is the phone currently bricked? Can you restore a working ROM using odin through download mode?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] cruise350:
You have to make sure you are installing the latest stock tar for your model S4 or it will fail in Odin. Your wife has the 720T model which is completely different than the original S4 that Sprint released the 720.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] chill6mm:
Help No Wifi

A couple days ago I noticed that my S4 wouldn't turn on WiFi. I would "flip the switch" in the WiFi settings and it would stay in the on position but grayed out, then after about ten seconds it would switch back to off. At the time my phone was rooted but wasn't not on a custom rom, but had simple things done, like xposed installed and some modules. I think the problem is that I tried using the WiFi tether TreVe mod and it didn't work while I was traveling. When I got to a place with WiFi it didn't work and that was when I noticed the problem. Since then I have tried everything from updating the baseband, flashing Cyanogen mod, to even unrooting and re-rooting the phone but all with no success to getting my WiFi to work. This is my first post to any forum so much help would be appreciated! Thanks!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] sedrostyle:
Ok, I dunno if this will get answered or even if someone knows how to answer it, but it really sucks knowing little to none but just enough of what I want. lol

here it goes,

I have the s4 720t for sprint. I was told the t is for triband.

I am in a LTE area here in washington, but not max LTE

I am trying to speed up my connection or even get better radio?

Here is my delima I know how to root, I have rooted and swapped roms a few times,. I used to be a blackberry guy.

Problem is I don't do it enough or keep up on everything to know where and what works.

So I was sifting around on here, and found a KERNAL? that i believe k toonz made.

From what I read, and it wasnt but a few pages it sounds what I am looking for?

speed reliabilty and maybe radio enhacement? speed hotspot internet. downloads. blah balh

I know that all matters on your coverage or where your at but I was wondering if there were any tweaks for stuff like this

AND also how to do them. If its just putting them in odin and flashing thats great. or even into the recovery and flashing just as I do with roms.

Currently I have the slimkat rom build 5 official 4050 android 4.42

says sph-l720 but behind the battery it says 720t

kernal version 3.40 cyanogenmod-gb508aa0

thanks for all the help in advance. Like I said I know enough to not know enough about WTF is going on .

HAHAH id like to learn more tweaks and ins and outs. thanks

steve
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] streethistory:
I'm trying to get the ulimited hotspot but I bricked my Sprint Galaxy S4.

my version of the phone

My phone is rooted but still stock rom

Software Version: L720VPUFNG2

Hardware Version: L720.08

Android Version: 4.4.2

Baseband version: L720VPUFNG2

Builder # : KOT49H.L720VPUFNG2

Is there ways to do this with the stock ROM or must I use a custom ROM?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] churchey360:
Aosp (Cyanogenmod) is best to use wifi tethering IMO no mod, hack, or app needed. i don't think there is a mod for NG2 update yet but a custom stock ROM like negalite might have the hotspot hack in it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] cruise350:
Try galaxy tools, works with stock roms that are rooted. Install it and then select enable native hotspot.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] killerz298:
I installed Galaxy Tools on my stock rooted Sprint s4 L720VPUFNG2 yesterday. Worked without issue. I read that you should disable auto restart in the tools options in order to get it to work (that is what I did).
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] MakeMoves:
I am trying to check if my data is going through the sprint proxies. In the past i would dial ##data# but it doesn't do anything now. None of the other dialer codes work either, is there something I need to do to enable them?

I am on Mostly Stock NG2 v1.3 from - http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s4-sprint/development/rom-stock-rooted-ng2-t2866864
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] maddhatteroo7:
Can I use a GS4 modem on my SPH-L720? I'm using MDC currently and also living in the UK looking to update my modem so I can get GPS connection with Slimkat 4.4.4 9.0. Currently Slimkat 4.4.4 7.0 works with the MDC modem, but won't with 9.0. Thanks!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] derpyherp:
please help zoom 4504 router problems

I have a 4504 and i have a issue with the router reseting when using the uml 290 modem from verizon. If i use anything besides chrome it rapidly keeps resetting until i pull the power cable and pull the modem and put it back in
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] ulremember:
Can any one assist me with my apn settings for my Sprint S4 when I Flash Echoe ROM V29 port?

I have tried twice. It flashes flawlessly.

Data works along with wifi.

My issue is I can't send mms messages.

I really like the ROM.

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