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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] dewrust:
Use Odin to reflash nae because you probably used TWRP to install rom

Play nice this is a noob friendly thread

He may not be up on current events with issues with certain recoveries

You do have have a good point in people do not like searching or reading back a few pages
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] cbraiders:
I hate twrp. Bricked my phone with it. I used the latest cwm touch recovery. Tried different versions of odin. Even flashed stock rooted nae. Should I try using Mobile odin pro to flash the midem? Lastly I have the stock unrooted tar. Should I just use that and re root?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] tylersblue:
I put alr3ady had twrp to losd to so i put the card bsck in it and loaded the force rom from the sd. The rom and phone run fine. Problem is my s beam wont work w this rom and my business partners and I trade pics all th3 time. I dont wanna go back to stock. So I need a mor3 stable rom I guess. One that will work my damn s beam. Lol. Ive seen alot about gapps this and flash three times this and hold ur phone upside down and slap it three times that. I just wanna flash a stable rom w working wifi and be done! Lol. Thanks
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Salil999:
Oh, then you can try out Team Sonic's FreeGS4

It does look like stock, but it's much smoother and better, in my opinion.

You'll really have to try out different ROMs to see which one is best to your taste! :)

You can find most ROMs in a nice, organized paged here!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Burtonrider:
I'm rooted and running TriForce 3.1 ROM with TWRP. I want to do a "Factory Reset" to where the entire internal storage is wiped, but leaves the ROM in tact. Would [settings -> Accounts -> Backup and reset -> Factory data reset] accomplish this? Or is that a big no-no with a custom ROM?

TIA
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Salil999:
I would go and reset it through TWRP. The phone will act as if it's brand new, but it will keep your custom ROM. I would clean cache and dalvik, and then do a factory reset (all of these you can do in TWRP) and then try and boot up the ROM.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Burtonrider:
Ok, thanks. I'll try that first
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] mnjeepmale:
I have a Sprint S4 flashed to Boost. Was trying to get rid of the Hands Free Activation that keeps telling me in the notification bar. I read to clear this by typing ##scrtn#.

Now there is no 3G. Did I erase or reset the network?

Do I need to get the phone flashed again?

Thanks
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] tylersblue:
Im wanting to install the negalite rom. Im currently running force. I read a mad ton in the dev page about s off and on, with no explanation as to whay thay meant. Nor could I find it on google lol. It also said it didnt like twrp for some reason.... I tried anyways and it failed. I rebooted a backup and her3 I am again! Is there a different recovery I could use? Also p's me off that I factory reset every time I flash. Can I backup apps and flash just those when I install the new rom? As a .zip? Im just learning all this mess. This is my second root. I pee my pants every time I hit go on a new install! Lmao. Its a rush. Brick or pimp.... which will it be?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] HPferoxCraft:
I'm also new to roms and just went from TriForce to Negalite, I enjoy them both. I have no issues flashing to negalite with twrp, I had issues with the latest twrp hanging all the time so I flashed back to 2.5.0.2 and now it's ok. You can use Titanium Backup to back up your apps and contacts and things before hand, the TB app comes in the negalite installer so you can start it up after install and restore all your apps, easy.

Also in aroma installer you can pick full wipe w internal storage wiped, without or nothing wiped. When switching roms I wiped internal also. Left me with about 9.3 gigs free internal. Then used TB to restore some apps and contacts.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] joe.stay:
When doing group text, it gets sent/received as MMS. Does this mean it requires network data to be sent/received? How do I do SMS for group text?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Salil999:
That's odd. Hands free activation should have updated your PRL and Profile. Try it again at some other time of the day? Restart the phone too.

Also, you can manually update PRL and Profile by heading to Settings > More > System Update > Update PRL/Profile

Did this problem happen with Stock ROM too? Or only after your flashed it?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Salil999:
You can backup data through Titanium Backup.

And you have to factory reset the phone because the phone leaves some older files behind that the previous ROM needs, but those files would have otherwise interfered with your newer ROM.

You can also try CWM, it's my preferred recovery. Look at my original posts on this thread to see how to install it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Salil999:
If you send a text, let's say, to a Galaxy S3 and an iPhone 5, you would be conversing on a single thread. Currently, I'm almost certain that group texting is sent as an MMS, and an MMS does require an active data connection, but I've heard it doesn't count against your data usage (unless you're sending pictures or other files)

Here's a screenshot of when I tried Group Messaging.

EDIT: I know Team Sonic's FreeGS4 ROM gives you the option of sending it as a group message or sending it as individual messages.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] mnjeepmale:
I didn't flash the phone. I contacted the person who flashed it today and they told me I did wipe out the phone by doing that. So it needs to be reflashed.

They also told me that Hands Free Activation will always show in the notification bar. But there has to be a way to remove it.

I don't think it was stock ROM. But was 4.2.2 with any apps related to Sprint removed.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Salil999:
Go to your recovery and factory reset the phone and clear your cache and dalvik. Then reboot the phone. If that still doesn't work, then install this: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=40889088

Sent from my Sprint Galaxy S4

Hit the "Thanks" button if I helped!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] tylersblue:
So I was like flash master funk today on my day off. I first flashed rootbox miui this morning. Not for me. Then I flashed back to my go to (forc3), installed titanium as suggested and backed up all my jazz, then flashed the tri force and updated it to 3.1. Then jacked around a bit w the customizable everything in recovery. I have to say it is by far the most cudtomizable ROM I have installed to date and if it's as stable as force 1 itll be my daily driver. Its been good to me so far. Only issue is I cant get to the adapt sounds function. Keeps saying settings has stopped. If thats it im dure itll get a patch. Im good w it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Salil999:
Haha, flash master funk. I'm not familiar with that ROM, but I'd suggest you post that issue in their forum:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php...s Dangerous to go Alone - Take This! {8/5/13}

They would be able to help you out much better. I use FreeGS4 as my daily :)

Sent from my Sprint Galaxy S4

Hit the "Thanks" button if I helped!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] HPferoxCraft:
Did you ever get negalite loaded?

Also a tip, make sure you use TB to re-backup your apps after they get updates from the play store otherwise you'll always bee having to update apps everytime you flash a Rom. And back up new ones you download after your first backup. it's quick using the batch processing option.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Toonlinkmaster25:
I can't get group play to work right. It says I only have canimalmatch installed when I CLEARLY have the poker game and guns bros 2 installed
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] tylersblue:
That was a no go on the negalite. I tried three times and still failed. Maybe it was a bad download? Idk. im usually pretty loyal after I find one im comfortable with. I did see a rom with a scrollable lock screen I thought was awesome. I thought it looked really cool but I couldnt get it going either. And thanks for the help on the tb. Sucks waiting for each one to load though. Is there a select all backup button or something? That would be kick ace....
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] malybru:
Hi,

On TB click backup/restore,and in the top right hand corner ,there is a tick.

This is for batch processes.

I am assuming you have the bought version.

Please support the developer ,if you haven't.

It is a great tool.

:)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] dewrust:
I am assuming you are trying to flash a kk rom. Use the latest philz recovery(in my signature) he has moved to a common update so just find the jflte folder

Most people have had great success with it
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Menardo:
If i've already taken the full update to NAE can i still put philz recovery and flash roms? i've already tripped the knox count or whatever its called? thanks
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] dewrust:
Philz should still work fine

If you have more philz questions it would be better to post in his thread where people follow him more closely and can get an answer from the man himself
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Echo113:
Do I need to unroot if I'm trading in my s4 to best buy? How do I unroot if I'm on NAE with no Knox and mf9 bootloader?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] dewrust:
If you are on mf9 bootloader still you can odin Mf9 stock and you should be fine
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] cbraiders:
update. no data

Ended up just flashing the stock tar with odin. Tried to root again with cf autoroot. Passed but no root access.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] dewrust:
Do you have super user installed?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Gazzuk:
Hello fellas just got my s4 last night. I came over from the E4GT and now ready to start tinkering with this awesome device. I've been reading so I have Questions..

I know qb king has a vid for rooting.. (is this the preferred method?)

How can I tell what modem/build version I'm on? (I'm still on stock 4.4.2)

What is the recommended recovery to use? I've always used CWM

As far as flashing is it the same as I've done in the past?

Wipe 3/flash rom/flash gapps/flash modem?

Thanks in advance the transition is a little weird for me right now.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] cruise350:
First off you have to verify what model you have. The Sprint S4 comes in 2 versions. The L720 which is the original version, and the L720T which is the triband version that most people are now receiving. This is important because they are not the same. Most roms and all mods on here are for the L720, so it is very important that you don't just start flashing away. If you have the L720T, you should probably start by reading the few threads that are L720T specific.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] samurai3032:
greatly appreciated

Long time lurker Here:

I have the SPH-L720T

I want to sim unlock my phone, I'm currently on 4.4.2 NAF, I have looked till my eyes bled. So now I'm here. Odin fails every time, I need all the help available. Thanks
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] cbraiders:
Yes but when I try to use titanium it says no root access. On further research it looks like I need to uncheck auto reboot. 1st boot needs to be to recovery? Once in recovery do I need to do anything or just boot up?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] dewrust:
Reroot but with auto reboot off... do a battery pull when odin says reboot... then boot normally
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] cbraiders:
Thanks. I'll try tonight and report.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Gazzuk:
First of all thank you very much! I have the regular non The version :)

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Non T* dang spell check lol
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Gazzuk:
So i take it im okay for the qb king odin root from his videos? What recovery is recommened? Thanks in advance
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] JerryGNYC:
I used saferoot -

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2565758

Still have stock recovery here, but Philz Touch is very popular..
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Gazzuk:
TY
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] JerryGNYC:
Answered you in the saferoot thread. It's for 4.3, not 4.4.2.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] cbraiders:
cf autoroot 4.4.2

No luck. tried 3 times. When the phone reboots it says, installing su, rooting and all all that other stuff. Did battery pull. tried booting into recovery and normally. Even tried 2 versions of odin.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] churchey360:
If you flash philz recovery there is an option to reroot your phone.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Gazzuk:
thanks again, i am rooted now :)

soo... can i use mobil odin to flash phils recovery zip?

philz_touch_6.15.4-jfltespr.zip

thanks.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] dewrust:
Philz and twrp seem to be working on 4.4.2. Each with their own bug.

They both can backup and restore without issue

Philz 6.25.2 has had SD card issues but 6.25 seems fully functional

Twrp has some bugs with flashing

I have philz in my signature

twrp you are going to have to search for... sorry I'm on mobile and it's almost impossible to find

Edit: I found it

[RECOVERY][jfltespr] TWRP 2.7.0.1 touch recovery [2014-03-11]

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2262999
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] cruise350:
There is no unlock available for the L720T. If you want to domestic sim unlock your phone you can't. Your only option is to sell your phone or trade it with someone that has the original L720. If you want international sim unlock, you have to call Sprint, and they will unlock your phone if you have owned it for 90 days or have a valid reason to unlock it early.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Gazzuk:
Whats a bootloader and why do i need it? Lol man i feel noob lol

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I only ask because mobil odin says i need to have a boot loader? Ive read something about sprint not having one.. im on 4.4.2
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Gazzuk:
Screw mobil odin twrp ftw! :)

Thanks again for un-noobing me! Lol
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Falcospirit:
Similar problem, but stuck at re-flash

Hi, I had the exact same issue, but I'm not sure how to re-flash back to stock. Would you be able to tell me how to go about getting back to stock?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] dewrust:
Start over or restore nanoid

I have posted many times that when manually modding for native hotspot it is safer to use xposed wannam

To get back to stock you need to odin the stock .tar file ... You can find them Unknownforce's thread in my sig read post 1 and you can see you can find them in post 2

Edit: if you have file manager set up in Philz you can restore to original files that way without flashing
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Falcospirit:
Okay, I did what you said to get back to stock, and I'm still stuck at the yellow screen. I've let it sit for about 5 minutes or so now. Is it possible that the MDC isn't the right one for me? I've always just assumed that it was because that is what all the people I've seen with stock Sprint GS4 have been using. How do I know which file is the one I'm supposed to be using?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] cbraiders:
Woohoo. Philz worked.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] dewrust:
I was going on the basis that you said you were on MDC.. if you were past mf9

Mdc and mf9 will soft brick

Is it possible you had a later build? If so they go in this order mdc, mf9: mja, mk2: nae

The colons represent no going back

When you used odin did you battery pull or let it auto reboot?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Falcospirit:
Sorry for the noobness, but by build I'm assuming you mean android version. If that's what you mean I was running 4.4.2, if that's not what you mean then I'm afraid I don't know how to tell which one I'm on now.

Also I let odin auto reboot, up until the yellow screen shows up and won't go away, then I pulled the battery.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Gazzuk:
Will stock NAE modem work on aosp roms? Where can i gind modems?

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Find*
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] dewrust:
Ok 4.4.2 is NAE you can not flash mdc

Flash the NAE stock and it should work
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Falcospirit:
Do you know where I can find a stock NAE firmware? I've been looking around for 30mins now and I can't seem to find it. I looked through unknownforce's firmwares, but the only NAE one I see there is modem only.

Thank you for your continued help.

Edit: I also tried the modem only firmware in case that was the one I needed, and it did not work.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] JerryGNYC:
You should register here -

http://www.sammobile.com

And then you'll want to go here - http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/

and search for SPH-L720
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] trubl1:
Do we still need to fix permissions after flashing KT kernel from OTA option in KTweaker?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] kilahchris:
Question about Rom compatibility

I am fairly new to flashing roms. I have currently an rooted Sac 5.4 rom installed on my Sprint Galaxy S4 phone.

However, I would like to know am I only limited to installing Sprint specific custom roms or can I install other roms that are compatible with the Galaxy S 4 (generallty GT-I9500 models). For example I would like to install Ubuntu Touch for the Galaxy S4. I am not sure if the roms are model specific as my model is the SPH-L720. Is the SPH-L720 compatible with roms designed for GT-I9500?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Falcospirit:
Thank you all

Thank you very much dewrust and JerryGNYC, with both of your help I was able to flash my phone back to stock and get it working again. That probably sounds like a noob thing. I had never done anything like it before, and it was fun learning about it. The help you guys provided is invaluable, and thanks again for what you do here.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] cbraiders:
In the development thread. There's rooted and not rooted. just odined the stock nae the other day to save my phone.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] JerryGNYC:
Glad our help got you where you needed to go! :good:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] dewrust:
not a problem we all have been there at some point. Just pay it forward

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dont go into jfltespr it is a dead recovery

use jflte 6.25 (6.25.2 borks sdcard)

philz is running one common recovery across carrier platforms

sorry did not see your post earlier and mobile odin is hit or miss of it works fully or not

the draw backs of using mobile app
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] churchey360:
So the nexus 5 and Google edition phones are getting an update to 4.4.3 that includes bug fixes. I think we should get an update for bug fixes too lol they should update our phone to 4.4.3 and include bug fixes like being able to write to your micro sd card and internal storage, Also be able to run ART instead of dalvik.

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It should also give us cool stuff like the S5 tiles, icons, settings, launcher, apps, and add the download booster in the settings lol.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] dewrust:
I won't doubt that there will be someone porting 4.4.3 .... remember if the s5 is coming out they are going to slow updates for the s4 because they want people to get the new hot thing..

Side note there are already roms that have the s5 "stuff"
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] JerryGNYC:
Looks like we may be getting an update sooner, rather than later... Someone was kind enough to post this in another thread -

http://opensource.samsung.com/reception/receptionSub.do?method=sub&sub=F&searchValue=sph-l720t
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Kaay151:
PLEASE HELP i want to go back to stock android!!!!!

Hey everyone, i know many of you have probably done this a million times but it would be super helpful if someone could just BREAK it down to me. I have a sprint samsung galaxy s4 that is rooted and has cyanogenmod 11 on it, im so tired of cyanogenmod and want my good old touchwiz back, i have searched up and down and left and right to get odin 3.07 and to get my stock rom 4.4.2 file but i cannot find these anywhere or atleast a download link that isnt BROKEN, i just want my phone to go back to normal, i dont really care about the current binary because i am not sending it back to sprint i simply just want cyanogenmod OFF my phone.

if someone would please be kind enough to help me or redirect me to a link where this is already explained i would really really apreciate it so much!!!

Thank you in advance!!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] JerryGNYC:
First - do you have an SPH-L720 or SPH-L720T (triband/Spark)?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Kaay151:
i have a SPH-L720
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] asphalt1972:
rooting sprint galaxy s4 sph-l720

i have a issue with rooting my phone ive done some research and i noticed a lot of people were using the motochopper root.i have tried this to no avail. the superuser says binary out of date? is there any known issues with motochopper? any help would be appreciated. i hope im posting this right.

thanks

asphalt1972
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] churchey360:
If you have philz recovery installed just choose the reroot option
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] JerryGNYC:
If you're going to restore via Odin, you can register at sammobile.com and search for SPH-L720 and you should find what you want. Do this from a PC as the downloads can be real slow. Might be faster if you send some coin their way, not sure (on my ToDo list...).
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] augiebaez04:
wif trouble

after flashing the mdc modem to do the domestic sim unlock and flashing back to nae modem I never get my wifi back up are there any fixes or am I missing a step during the flashing.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] ibcenu:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=50668765

Check out randoms thread. Has the stock rom. Faster downloads..After that, use the current cf auto root and your all set
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] hanismj:
Hi, I am not rooted(on this device is a work phone) I am wondering if I can save games before a factory reset. I have to do a reset and don't want to lose a couple games. Dumb balloon popping game as simple as it is is a great daily ****ter game. Thanks in advance!!