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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] churchey360:
Go here and download v1.5 on your computer and run it. Then go into download mode and see if odin will recognize your device, you might wanna give it a sec for the drivers to connect to your phone. http://www.rwilco12.com/downloads.php?dir=Files/Misc Files/Samsung Files/Samsung Drivers

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Also if hemidall is on your computer you might wanna uninstall it first. Idk what that really is and it might mess up the drivers connecting to your phone.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] dewrust:
from the looks of it hemidall is an open source odin..

I suggest sticking with the original that we know works
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] churchey360:
Ohh ok lol so its just a program like odin.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] btoddweber:
Hello. I am new to this device coming from an E4GT. Ive been reading and have the MJA on my device. From what ive read I understand to be able to use the CF Auto Root to gain root but it will trip knox which only voids the warranty not rendering the device dead..lol.

Im used to odin and dont mind the knox being tripped just dont want a brick. Did that with my 1st epic. Lol.

Thanks in advance and am looking fwd to this device.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] BIGSAMDA1ST:
Welcome to the S4 , I remember seeing you in the E4GT forums....Yes.. Knox will definitely be tripped but it also prevents it from going back to any older builds. There is a guide that let's you upgrade to 4.3 without the Bootloader.. Here it is http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=41384294

GS4 Stock Rooted MJA 4.3,Philz Touch CWM,HotSpot Mod,Transparent Weather Widget,8SMS(Stock Messaging,KitKat)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] btoddweber:
Its asking me if I need to let supersu try and remove knox? ? Ever seen that?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] BIGSAMDA1ST:
I've never seen it myself but I did see it mentioned in one of these threads. I will see if I can find it.

Edit: Just saw what you meant. It just happened when updating Super Su..I just clicked cancel. Lets see what happens..

GS4 Stock Rooted MJA 4.3,Philz Touch CWM,HotSpot Mod,Transparent Weather Widget,8SMS(Stock Messaging,KitKat)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Tsukiyohikage:
My parents and my lil sister just got the S4, all they want ia the free wifi tethering, they don't need a custom rom. Can I just root their phones and juat do the wifi hotspot mod with the stock rom rooted or do I need to have a custom rom to use it? I was looking to see if they there was a rom like the HTC one does called stock with goodies but didn't see one. I couldn't find any epst tweaks listed. Can I use the same one for the one or doea the S4 not support epst tweaks?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] BIGSAMDA1ST:
You can root and add a custom recovery then flash the hot spot mod..Just remenber that rooting your device will trip Knox therefore voiding your warranty. Also once you root on MJA there is no going back to any other previous builds. I suggest reading more on Knox and MJA or if you just want to go ahead and root and install mods you can go here

1) CF-Auto Root http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=41743595

2) Philz Touch CWM http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=42538735

3) Hot Spot Mod http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=40860639

GS4 Stock Rooted MJA 4.3,Philz Touch CWM,HotSpot Mod,Transparent Weather Widget,8SMS(Stock Messaging,KitKat)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] btoddweber:
Just got rooted and was speaking to a friend who has a S4 on US cellular. He pushed CWM via rom manager, anyone else heard if thatd ok or done it that way?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] exeleon:
Yup I've flashed TWRP in the goo manager app by menu>install open recovery script and cwm using ROM manager in a similar way. I actually prefer flashing recoveries the "long" way either via Odin or in recovery, just a matter of personal preference.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] churchey360:
I couldn't get goo manager to work so I used terminal emulator to flash the latest twrp.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] exeleon:
There are stock rooted ROMs floating around in xda. The only reason why I suggest finding one and flashing is because I was in a similar situation as you- my parents wanted tethering I flashed the mod only. Couple of weeks later my mother received the mja update, took it and soft bricked her phone. Stock rooted ROMs here on xda typically disable ota's so you don't have to worry about that plus they're debloated which is also pretty cool.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] churchey360:
I was wondering why do aosp roms have a weaker 4g and 3g signal than touch wiz Roms? When I'm on touchwiz I never use WiFi but on Roms like cm or pacman I have to stay connected all the time.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] pmacevad:
Hi guys, first time poster to these forums. I just picked up a gs4 for my fiance on black Friday and wanted to get it rooted with unlocked hotspot and a custom rom possibly. The phone came running android 4.2.2 but prompted for an update to 4.3 upon activation. We upgraded the os to 4.3 but in my reading I've heard about this Knox security feature that trips a tampered flag if you root the device. I did a little reading before posting but couldn't find anything specific to my question (at work atm and have limited search capabilities). I would like to keep the rooting process on the hush hush to the manufacturer if possible. I remember on previous devices I was able to roll back after an update like this and was wondering if this was possible here too. If not what would be the recommended methods to root the device and put a custom recovery on the phone, as well as adding unlocked native tethering. Thanks in advance and I'm looking forward to modding and learning about this device. ?

Sent from my rooted & s-off'd HTC One, powered by Android Jelly Bean v4.3 :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] churchey360:
You can't go back to 4.2.2 after taking the update. And rooting and adding a custom recovery is easy its the same method as before just make sure you use the latest philz cwm recovery. Just follow this link it'll have everything you need. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2511156

Also if you ever need to take it back to sprint just flash the stock mja.tar file and reroot it and use triangle away then do a full unroot. Triangle away will reset the boot loader except the KNOX count but they prob won't even check that.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] pmacevad:
Thanks and clicked. Looks like I have a weekend project. :good:

Sent from my rooted & s-off'd HTC One, powered by Android Jelly Bean v4.3 :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] churchey360:
Yeah lol I just got my s4 a couple of weeks before the 4.3 update came out and I love it. I can't even set my phone down anymore lol.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] BIGSAMDA1ST:
You can always go this route also if you want to keep the MF9 Bootloader... It's all up to you. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=41384294

GS4 Stock Rooted MJA 4.3,Philz Touch CWM,HotSpot Mod,Transparent Weather Widget,8SMS(Stock Messaging,KitKat)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] cruise350:
Not possible, he already took the OTA.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] BIGSAMDA1ST:
Was hoping he didn't...:eek:

GS4 Stock Rooted MJA 4.3,Philz Touch CWM,HotSpot Mod,Transparent Weather Widget,8SMS(Stock Messaging,KitKat)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Goat1378:
I was wondering

Hello all... I was wondering... does any1 know of a mod I can use with what I'm running (listed below) that will get me the blue android themed multi-window with the blue android guy thumb tab? I sure do like that little guy!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] xxRandomHeroxx:
Please Help. Rooted my Sprint GS4

I got the black Friday deal for Sprint and figured I'd root it and clear some of the junk off of it. Rooting went fine but somewhere I must have done something and now it will stop at the yellow sprint screen or I can get into teamwin screen.

Also if I bricked it like I feared can it be undone? I now realize my stupidity and have no phone.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] churchey360:
You might need to just flash a ROM to your phone. So you can get into recovery?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] btoddweber:
So if I want to go back to unrooted fully stock mja I just flash the tar in rwilcos repository via mobile Odin or PDA in PC Odin??
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] churchey360:
I think they have a .zip file. I downloaded mine from Samsung.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] DustCrow:
I need some help!

Every single AOSP rom I have tried to flash works, however, my data connection never works. I get no 3g or 4g or any Data connection at all, I've tried maybe 5 AOSP roms.

Help!?

Thanks!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] churchey360:
Go to your settings and then click more and then under the network connection or something like that itll be set on gsm/cdma/evdo you have to change it to enable lte/cdma/evdo. Sorry for the bad instructions im not on aosp anymore so it was off the top of my head.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] DustCrow:
Just did, but still not working :/
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] churchey360:
You might not have a strong signal where your at. Put it in airplane mode for a min then turn it back on and see if it works for a couple mins and if it does then stops working again that means you dont have a strong signal.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] DustCrow:
Still nothing :/

I'm at my house, where I usually have decent connection. Should I try driving around maybe and seeing if I get a signal?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] doogiezx3:
I give up

Im either stuck in bootloop or stuck on the sprint screen. Im using odin and nothing is working ive tried to flash back to stock and it says fail. When it says pass I go into bootlop. Please help me:(
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] BIGSAMDA1ST:
What were you on? Which stock rom were you trying to download?

GS4 Stock Rooted MJA 4.3,Philz Touch CWM,HotSpot Mod,Transparent Weather Widget,8SMS(Stock Messaging,KitKat)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] doogiezx3:
Sprint version 4.3

Using Odin i've tried

KERNEL-SPR-L720VPUEMJA-1382157965.tar

L720VPUAMDC_L720SPTAMDC_L720VPUAMDC_HOME.tar.md5

L720VPUAMDL_L720SPTAMDL_L720VPUAMDL_HOME.tar.md5

All FAIL and I now I just go into boot loop.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] BIGSAMDA1ST:
Just so you know once you are on MJA you can't downgrade to any older builds. Just odin the stock MJA..

GS4 Stock Rooted MJA 4.3,Philz Touch CWM,HotSpot Mod,Transparent Weather Widget,8SMS(Stock Messaging,KitKat)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Cabledwg:
Okay I've read and read, and still dont understand this that much. My S3 from Verizon seemed so much easier to root and install AOKP. Just got this Friday. Want to root, add TWRP, and AOKP this phone so bad. I just dont understand all this new stuff. I'm currently stock with MF9. Haven't messed with the update. Should I update to MJA then root? Is it possible to root MF9, add TWRP, and AOKP? Is it possible to root MJA, add TWRP, and AOKP? Sorry for the questions. I rooted my S3 last December and the steps on Rootzwiki seemed a lot easier than 3verything I've been reading on here. What would be best? The Sprint Rep at Best Buy said his S4 has been acting up since MJA.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] doogiezx3:
I really appreciate the help because obviously I have no clue what I'm doing/talking about. Are you saying my MJA is 4.3 and I'm screwed? Or are you saying I need to find my build for odin?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] BIGSAMDA1ST:
What I'm saying is that if you took the MJA OTA you can't go back to any previous builds. You can however odin back to stock MJA..

GS4 Stock Rooted MJA 4.3,Philz Touch CWM,HotSpot Mod,Transparent Weather Widget,8SMS(Stock Messaging,KitKat)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] doogiezx3:
I guess that's what I'm trying to do but don't know how. I've done every tutorial that everyone with my similar problem has done. They aren't working.:crying:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] churchey360:
Follow this link and scroll down and you will see the mja.tar download, just create an account to download it and then flash it with odin. http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/1/?model=SPH-L720&pcode=SPR#firmware

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[MENTION=4123406]doogiezx3[/MENTION] are you on the new bootloader? If you are then this will work and you will be completely stock 4.3
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] BIGSAMDA1ST:
If you are still on MF9 you can always go this route... http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=41384294

GS4 Stock Rooted MJA 4.3,Philz Touch CWM,HotSpot Mod,Transparent Weather Widget,8SMS(Stock Messaging,KitKat)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] btoddweber:
I guess my confusion comes in when people say once you have mja you cannot go back?? Why would I want to go back?? Sorry for not understanding.

All I want is to be OK using 4.3 Roms or above. I have stock rooted mja and cwm via ROM manager (which says its the latest cwm)

It sometimes sounds like mja is the plague. :confused::eek:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] churchey360:
I personally don't think there's a good reason to downgrade back to 4.2.2 lol. Also Philz cwm came out with a new update today if you wanna try that lol.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] btoddweber:
So I'd just flash the new Philz like any other ROM?? Wipe cache and dalvik the ln flash and reboot...right?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] churchey360:
Yep
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] exeleon:
Yea, same process minus the whole factory reset and data wipes
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] doogiezx3:
My phone is up and running. I owe you guys a lot. Wifi is down but ill worry about that tomorrow. Thanks everyone.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Apkbuccsfan:
Just got my S4 from sprint and updated to 4.3 ota. I've heard that I need to be on 4.2.2 to get proper root or something like that.

I came from an Epic 4g touch (s2) and am familiar with everything there. Just don't know much about the S4 yet.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] exeleon:
Nope, you can root 4.3 via odin with cf-autoroot. Just be aware that MJA (4.3) does have the knox security feature in the bootloader so until (when/if) someone devs a way to reset the knox flash counter your warranty will be void. Heres how to root if you're interested.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Karma231:
I really need some help....

I got my sprint galaxy s4 a few days ago since then I have tried cm 10.2 cm 11 gummy 4.4 kitkat and I have the same problems on all of them so it must be either this phone has screwed hardware (and now im screwed since the warranty is void)

Anyway my issues are, no 4G (always connected via 3g when I know my area is 4g I had 4g on stock) I have LTE enabled in mobile networks

My call volume is SUPER LOW I can barely hear anyone talk it's ridiculous how low it is even with the volume turned all the way up.

SOMEONE PLEASE HELP I'M GOING INSANE
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] exeleon:
If you had lte on stock I doubt it's your hardware. Just to be clear, your running mja firmware and software? What recovery are you using? I had the same problem on my last phone. Try switching back to a tw based ROM as both of the ROMs you mentioned are aosp. Give sac's ROM a try, see if you get 4g/lte. While your there, update your prl and profile, won't fix it but it couldn't hurt. If all else fails I would move all the important stuff, including a new rom, to my external SD and manual format system,internal, cache and data in mounts and storage. (Varies from recovery to recovery).
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Karma231:
I tried flashing MJA but I just get a boot loop, samsung galaxy s4 screen over and over.

I can flash CM versions though i've tried CM 10.2 nightlies, M1. I've tried CM 11 and gummy 4.4 kitkat nothing has 4G ill try sac like you said.

Flashed sac and my call volume is alot better, although still really quiet max volume imo.

4g lte works! except on sacs I can't seem to download from the play store, I can browse the web on 4g lte but the google play store just starts a download but no data is ever transfered

So something is definitely wrong with all the CM roms or I'm missing something
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] makipsee:
i have my S4 rooted and i have The Blu Kuban rom installed but i can not remove or install apps in the /system/app/ folder now when i was rooted on my S3 i was able to do this is there something that im missing?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] exeleon:
I was using a rom based on cm10.2 before I tried out sacs rom and I had LTE service but no 3g which was weird. Don't flash the whole mja update if you have any doubts about your hardware and are considering using your warranty. If you do, you wont be able to roll back your bootloader which will show a count flash thus voiding your warranty. If you want to update to the mja modem only follow unknownforces instructions word for word and you'll be good. Updating your modem is fine because you can backtrack to the mf9 modem if you are still having problems. It was most likely a wipe issue that was giving you problems before. Follow the wipe instructions sac lists in the 2 or 3 post, he gives instruction there on how to thoroughly wipe for a clean install. I'm using gummy now and have 0 issues. I do remember having that same playstore not downloading issue and cannot remember how I fixed it. (Possibly reflashing or wiping caches in recovery)? As for the low volume issue, I have no idea. Hopefully someone can jump in here and help you out!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Karma231:
So I fixed the play store issue by connecting to wifi and downloading something, switching to 4g lte and downloading now works.

Call volume is MUCH MUCH better on sacs rom so that is awesome. Over all this rom is really really well done. I kind of really want a 4.4 rom but now that everything is working I'm gonna stick with this for a few months till the 4.4 stuff is more mature.

One question I have now though is, what are acceptable 4g lte upload/download speeds? I did a speed test and was getting 2mbps up/down.

Went and looked at the sprint website and it said that I should expect around 2mbps up and 6-8 down.

So 2mb down is pretty bad, something to be concerned about? I do have good signal at my house.

Oh and I did do a PRL update on sac like you said and it found one.

Also just flashed the MJA modem with no issues.

As far as not getting knox tripped it is far too late on that one, I had flashed a CM 10.2 after taking the 43 OTA before I had ever heard of knox, oh well spilled milk now.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] exeleon:
Oh ok, I was under the impression that the mja update failed. I planned on waiting on kitkat also but the gummy from 11/21 is pretty flawless (minus skype and hangouts video chats having no sound) they started putting out nightlys the other day, and am hesitant to try them as I'm happy where I'm at right now. As for the lte speeds, it really all depends on your exact location and theres also a lot of other factors that can effect it. Glad its working for you though. :good:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Karma231:
I was trying to flash an mja/mk2.zip from recovery earlier and that kept failing. Your link to that guide worked great thanks so much this has been a huge headache, I came from a virgin mobile optimus V where the only thing I ever had to do was whipe/flash zips and I thought I knew what I was doing :eek:

Anyway once I had sac working properly and the MJA update done and a nandroid made of sac. I decided why not try gummy again since it was 4.4 and that was what I really wanted.

Well the 4G works now and the call volume seems to be reasonable at max, although i'd still expect more volume but this will work fine.

Not really sure what my entire issue was since Sac 4.3 worked before I did the MJA flash, Gummy didn't work till after.

Sac is really nice but yeah, i'm using the latest nightly of Gummy and it's the one I think i'll stick with for awhile.

Thanks so much for the help the IRC channel was pretty worthless.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] pimpwaldo:
Kernel is not seandroid, Set warranty bit :kernal

I've been trying to get back to stock on my SGS4 because of a recent flash to Sacs left me with

(Kernel is not seandroid, Set warranty bit :kernal) at boot up and no connection to my network. After trying to fix it I got the kernal off but still couldn't get my network to work, my main problem is I can't use odin to go back to stock because it say fail every time I try. so how do I go back to stock?

Phone - Sprint Samsung Galaxy S4 (SPH-L720)

Android Version - 4.3

ROM - Sacs Custom Rom 4.3 Edition

Build Date - Sun Dec 1

Kernel Version - 3.4.0-1927016

Baseband - L720VPUAMDC
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Karma231:
Did you take the 4.3 OTA update and then install a custom rom? If So you voided your warranty just like I did.

However if I ever need to do a warranty exchange I'm gonna fight it tooth and nail because I was never once told at radioshack that I couldn't use custom roms. Warranty voids should be based on hw modifications not software.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] 4tbyrds:
S4, did root, did update 4.3, now not rooted :(

Ok...I am a verrry NOOB. ...I have a sprint samsung galaxy S4, we are stationed in Italy, sprint unlocked it for me so I could use it in Italy, but I learned that I am not able to view or change the APN on this phone. I had voice, but no data. So I learned how to root (at least I followed the directions correctly) using http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2291827 So after it was rooted I was able to use the app APN Italy and now I have data using my vodafone sim card. I used Titanium backup. I did backup everything. The update for android 4.3 kept staying there so I figured since it was backed up I could see what happened. ( I thought if it didn't work out that titanium backup would have like a restore point kind of thing???) I did the update. My phone seems to be working fine, but I am no longer rooted.(so says Titanium) What should I do? How should I do it?