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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Cabledwg:
Okay so I have no internet, laptop, or WiFi near my apartment. I have a desktop I used last year to root my Verizon S3, so I have some knowledge of rooting. My question is; can I download all the zips and files to my S4 external SD then transfer them to my PC and run them in Odin? I have an old version of Odin spread on my PC, I also downloaded the newest zip version on my S4. I'm sure all I would have to do is read all instructions properly so if I soft brick my S4 I can recover from it, and make sure I know which file is which so I don't Odin/flash the wrong stuff. I just want to root, TWRP, and WiFi tether for now. Not sure if I'm going to flash a ROM. I loved AOKP on my S3, but I love the ability to use the IR blaster on my S4. I lost that ability on my tab last year flashing CM10. Forgot to say, I'm still stock MF9.

Sent from my SPH-L720
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] churchey360:
Yeah you should be able to transfer the root and recovery files (i would use the latest philz recovery tho) to your computer and then odin them. Make sure you also have a copy of the stock mf9.tar file on your computer so if you brick your phone you can just flash that to go back to complete stock
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] dewrust:
+1 thus guy he knows:thumbup:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Cabledwg:
Should I stay MF9 then root or take the OTA go MK2 then root? What would be the best? I'm not worried about tripping a flash counter. Did it on my S3, don't really care. I don't plan on messing it up.

Sent from my SPH-L720
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] dewrust:
You should read up on Knox

No one plans on messing up their phone
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] FanOfSkynyrd:
I personally don't care about tripping the flash counter either, but wanted the flexibility of being able to downgrade if/when I wanted to. So I flashed Unknownforces MK2 AIO and sacs latest, giving me latest firmware and a 4.3 ROM but kept my mf9 bootloader.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] churchey360:
Yeah i honestly dont see a point in ever needing to downgrade to mf9 after taking the updates so i really dont care about having KNOX in my bootloader i would just take the OTA.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] btoddweber:
Only issue I was told about is that you cannot run anything below 4.3 if you take MJA or higher. I took all the updates and honestly don't plan on running anything prior to 4.3.

Been on 4.4 for a while and it seems like it getting pretty stable.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Abdulwalee:
HELP ME

so i was rooting for the first time on my sprint galaxy s4. did it was happy. installed recovery. happy installed custom rom was happy went back to original recovery file. was happy tried to go back to custom rom anddddd now im stuck at the splash screen someone please help me.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] churchey360:
Flash custom recovery again and then flash the rom that you wanna use.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] dewrust:
You need to odin a custom recovery and re flash the rom... stay on custom recovery
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Abdulwalee:
the custom recovery twrp is still there ive tried flashing the zip several times and it wont do it it keeps failing.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] churchey360:
You probably need the latest philz recovery it flashes newer roms alot better
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Abdulwalee:
the custom recovery is still on the device however i cant install the custom rom zip file. it keeps failing.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] churchey360:
This recovery should work better than twrp http://d-h.st/fGN
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Abdulwalee:
my device isnt hard bricked is it? it boots into the costum recovery and to downloader just wont boot into the acutual andriod system.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] leaderbuilder:
Okay people here are trying to help you.

If you can get into recovery you're not bricked. AND you have a custom recovery already installed so you can make this work fairly easily.

IF

you just follow some directions closely. Grab/download everything you need below (on your PC, verify the MD5 Sums) and copy them to your ExternalSD card

Download Phiz latest recovery here.

Grab the MK2 Modem here

Grab rawintellect's mostly stock ROM here. I'd recommend this for you to start out with.

Once you've got all these files on your SD card put the card back into your phone power up to recovery (power button + home button + volume up button).

In recovery 'install from zip' and choose philz recovery. install that and then reboot RECOVERY. That should take you to Philz recovery right after booting.

Then install zip form sdcard01 (external SD card) and install the MK2 Modem.

Then reboot recovery again (Power Options>reboot recovery)

Then follow these insturctions from raw's post:

To install this ROM follow these instructions EXACTLY:

Boot into Philz recovery

Select "Wipe Data/Factory reset"

Select "Clean to Install a New Rom"

Select "Yes I will install a new ROM".

Then flash this ROM. [then reboot and let ROM boot - first boot can take upto 10 full earth minutes - LET IT]

Here is the link to rawintellect's post(s)

Good luck.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] lcovel:
Good morning all. I am new to the GS4 SPH-L720 (Coming from the Epic4G) The question I have is that I want to find a CWM/TWRP manager that is easy to use, and easy on the eyes. (I wear bi-focals).

Is there a CWM/TWRP that has larger lettering? Any input would be much appreciated.

Right now I am using Philz Touch V5, CWM version 6.0.4.4 and I cant sem to figure out how to set it to write NANS to my new SD card.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] dewrust:
To my knowledge there is no recovery with larger lettering...maybe suggest it to one of those developers

As for backing up nanoids in backup/restore you have the option to backup/restore/delete nanoids. From internal(emulated/0)

Or

External(sdcard1)

Backup to external is midway down the screen
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] lcovel:
Thanks! For some reason I wasn't making the connection with sdcard1 being the external SD card, I had always gone with the first option, and that was filling up my phones memory. Hopefully this will work for me. Every restore I have tried in the past on the GS4 has resulted a boot loop at the yellow sprint screen. Anyone else had that problem while attempting a restore? I havent attempted restoring while on Philz yet.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] dewrust:
This is a setting in philz that makes it compatible with 4.3. It might have been taken out in a later version but I do remember seeing it
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] leaderbuilder:
In Philz go to misc nandroid settings and check 'backup SE Linux context'.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] churchey360:
If you go to the ui settings in philz i think you can make the text bigger and change the color of the text and the background so you can see it better.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] churchey360:
Is there anyway to root my s4 without a computer?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] leaderbuilder:
Nope
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] churchey360:
Lol i wanted to try todays nightly for the new aokp 4.4 guess i gotta wait until tomorrow to root my phone have you tried the aokp kitkat yet?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] zoramac:
I hate to be a noob, but I'm having zero luck here, I'm not bricked, but ive been trying to install philz recovery all morning (to go to the mostly stock rom) I'm on 4.3 MK2, previous to the last couple of updates id always been using the rooted stock roms. Ive downloaded Philz (multiple times) and verified the md5, then when i boot into recovery I have the android with the red triangle above him and no command underneath if that matters. also I do not have the option for "install from zip" i have "apply update from external storage" - when i run it from external storage i get "unable to verify whole-file signature" and "signature failed" it then reboots and goes into normal operation. if i reboot manually into recovery (no option in recovery to actually do so) i get the same menu as before. Just found and tried the 4-in-1 reboot menu, got the same error "signature failed" when trying to install that and still no difference
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] cruise350:
I don't believe you can install a custom recovery from the stock recovery because it isn't signed. You will need to root your phone using CF-autoroot, then odin a custom recovery, then you should be able to install philz recovery or what ever custom rom you want.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] leaderbuilder:
Okay so you do NOT have a custom recovey installed then! What you are seeing is the Stock recovery.

What you need to do is PC Odin a recovery.

Download PC Odin Extract it to folder.

Download Philz recovery .tar from here

Turn off you phone completely and don't have it attached to the PC.

Launch/run Odin 'As administrator' (right click and choose that).

Click on the PDA button and navigate to the .tar.md5 of philz. Uncheck the 'Auto Reboot' option in Odin3. And do NOT check re-partition!

Now put your phone into download mode - Power on+Volume DOWN+Home button till you see the 'entering download mode' press Up Volume to continue. and then go into download mode.

Now plug your phone into the PC and you should see something show on a COM port - doesn't matter which one. Then click on Start and you should be watch the file go till it reads 'pass' and your phone will show it has finished.

Once passed disconnect from the PC and power the phone down/off and restart it. let it boot.

NOW see if you can get into recovery (philz) by powering off completely and then turning it on and holding by holding the PowerOn+Volume UP+Home button.

Then re-read above on how to install root and other stuff.

Also spend some more time here reading a whole lot or you'll just frustrate yourself more.

Good luck.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] zoramac:
Awesome, thank you. Took me about 7 tries, but it finally took and i was able to boot into Philz recovery. Almost stock now installed and updating. again thank you and have a very happy new year
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Gevo247:
How to switch from cm 10.1 sph l720 back to stock every stock file I flash in Odin fails. I don't have a backup. It upgraded to 4.3 then I used cm installer and now I want to return stock. I have returned note 2 and s3 back to stock from kies but kies says I have the wrong s/n for the sph l720...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] churchey360:
Flash this with odin and it should take you to stock 4.3 http://samsung-updates.com/details/20331/Galaxy_S_4_Sprint/SPH-L720/SPR/L720VPUEMK2.html

---------- Post added at 04:29 AM ---------- Previous post was at 04:28 AM ----------

Also sacs ROM is stock but its rooted and themed you could just flash that in your recovery.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Gevo247:
Bad zip everyone I've tried fails and twrp is stuck in its own page. I've tried sacs on twrp and Philz and it's a bad zip no files found.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] cruise350:
I just wanted to clear something up here. You do not and never needed to hold the home button while booting into download mode on the S4. To enter download mode it is just volume down and power. Otherwise everything you said is spot on!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] dewrust:
It's a habit from previous phones that sticks with people. Yes you are correct, same goes for recovery

Sent from my SPH-L720
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] cmerri07:
Clock Issue

Is anyone else having issues with the clock not syncing correctly? I am running Carbon KitKat 4.4.2 (12/31 build) and I am having issues with the clock not syncing at all. Sometimes it's within 2-3 minutes of the right time, sometimes its 2-3 hours off. Sometimes the notification area time is different than lock screen time and the time set without pulling down notification bar. Lock screen time is always right though. Otherwise it's working great. I have even tried to set it to manual time and it's doing the same thing. Thanks in advance!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] leaderbuilder:
That may/looks to be true now.

Maybe it was only the first production S4s and the newer ones do not require the home button.

But my 1st S4 device - MUCH to my surprise DID require the Home Button pressing. Took me a very long time to find that out.

I had that device replaced early on for other reasons and didn't check.

Since you mentioned it I checked this this morning and yes I DO NOT have to hold the home button. Yay! Been doing it for so long out of habit.

Thanks for the tip.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Gevo247:
I can only get to download mode and every tar fails I can't find a file that will flash and stick
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] ZuperBlahq:
New to the S4

So I'm comming from the Sprint Epic 4g Touch and on that phone you were able to toggle the 4g on and off. Is there a way to do that with the GS4?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] churchey360:
Na put it in airplane mode lol if your rooted then some custom stock roms have that option tho
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] ZuperBlahq:
why would i put it in airplane mode. and this is very dissapointing :'(
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Goat1378:
Go to settings in Developer options make sure usb debugging is checked?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] cruise350:
You can, but it's not what you want. Goto settings/connections/more networks/mobile networks/network mode and select cdma, the phone will reboot and no more 4g. Why you wouldn't want LTE is strange since battery is so much better on LTE than 3g.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] ZuperBlahq:
no like im saying now i cant get 4g when i want. the only time ive seen 4g on my phone was when i got it activated in the store. and i know theres 4g towers where i am. im saying im bummed that i cant manually turn it on.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] cruise350:
Hang in there, sounds like your area isn't fully built out yet. Your phone will default to LTE once you have better coverage. Make sure you are on the latest modem and prl for best results. Also, the airplane mode trick is to force your phone to reacquire the data signal and hopefully it latches on to LTE. Just enter airplane mode, and then exit it and if LTE is available it should lock on.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] dewrust:
Try updating your profile

Settings》update phone》prl and profile

See if that helps

Sent from my SPH-L720
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Gevo247:
I just need a sph l720 4.3 stock tar that works I can only access Odin mode I'm stuck on s4 page now do to failing in Odin
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] heltonlevi85:
I believe there is a post on flashing mk2 radio but staying on mf9 bootloader so Knox will not be installed. ..I took the ota right when I got my phone not thinking but I have rooted and had no problems
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] leaderbuilder:
Grab that here
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] ykrahs666:
please help switch from cdma to gsm inside usa?

thanks to anyone who may read this. im desperately trying to switch from CDMA to GSM inside the usa for domestic use..is there anyway to do this? ive alrady switched it over inside the network settings..its on automatic for now but theres a manual option.

can anyone help? thanks for any info
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] ZuperBlahq:
Is something supposed to be in this square? It's driving me crazy. When you tap on a message you receive on the lock screen it brings up this square.

View attachment 2490436
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] dewrust:
That's the swipe unlock

Sent from my SPH-L720
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] untwed:
I just want to try another touchwiz ROM. Really, I just want my phone to work smoothly again. I'm sorry I don't really know where to start.

I want to be mindful of everyone's time and I dont want to screw up my phone. I got SPH-L720 at launch, used it stock for a couple weeks. Really liked it. Rooted it using QBKing's sticky. Got the hotspot. kept the stock ROM. I have accepted NO OTA updates.

I feel the phone has started to suck the last several weeks. Really slow pulling up photos, keyboard, switching things. I was just going to flash a new touchwiz ROM and now I'm reading about new bootloaders and flash counters and the inablity to revert back.

1) What relevant information about my phone do I need? (I know its a SPH-L720, I have sprint, its android 4.2.2, baseband L720VPUAMDL)

2) Which ROMS can I flash relatively easy right now?

3) I'm guessing i still have MF9 bootloader- That is good right?

4) What do i need to know about knox? It's needed for 4.3 ?

thanks for the help
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] dewrust:
1) you have pre mf9. You have mdl

2)Knox only matters if you care about warrantys

3) Sac 4.3 touchwiz is ez flash with a big community. .. speaking from experience

4) you can upgrade your baseband and keep the bootloader(mdl for you) using unknownforces builds(check my sig). It is just firmware

5) ONLY DO WHAT YOU ARE COMFORTABLE DOING AND ALWAYS MAKE A BACK UP

Sent from my SPH-L720
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] untwed:
Thank you! After doing some more reading, it seems like I'm in the dark ages using MDL. I dont really know about the bootloader. But it appears to load the kernal and other low level basic stuff. It seems to add stuff like apps 2 SD, audio clipping. Do i NOT get those things if I do NOT upgrade the bootloader? What is the downside to upgrading the bootloader?

Thanks!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] exeleon:
+1 for Sac's V5.2 rom if you're looking to stay with TW. Has tons of aesthetic and performance tweaks, but still sticks to the stock rom pretty nicely. In that rom's thread in the 3rd or 4th post Sac gives great instructions for a clean flash you should follow when flashing his rom for the first time.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] moats252:
Help me please (panic)

ok so i tried to root my phone (samsung galaxy s4) using a website and i did everything it told me to exactly how it said it. everything seemed like it worked out ok i had got the green light and it installed super user but when i go to open it in gives me an error that says "there was an error installing superuser. Please send a log of the error to the developer." Please help me..
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] exeleon:
Uninstall superuser and reinstall via play or flash a ROM which includes it. After, install root checker and verify the root process itself went as it should.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] moats252:
so i did both the things you said and i got the same outcome. i opened root check and it said this device does not have proper root access
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] dewrust:
Look in this forum for

Cf auto root

For your device carrier. Could have been an outdated process

Sent from my SPH-L720
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] PieSniper:
Okay, so I need to unlock my blasted Wi-Fi tethering feature, because I'm on vacation with my dad, and their stupid Wi-Fi won't reach into our room. Flashing the MK2 file with stock recovery didn't seem to work. I still have that popup come up and turn my tethering back off. Obviously, I've already rooted the phone. I was able to do that much through lurking. So I read more in the thread, and found the following:

The thing is, I can't do this, because it won't let me touch the existing services.jar and services.odex files. I can't rename them, I can't move them, and I can't overwrite them with the new ones mentioned in the post. I could rename the new ones, but I believe that would probably just make them not work.

What do?

While we're at it, two bonus questions.

1. How do I add more apps to multi-window? The ones it includes by default are not ones I need to use simultaneously. What WOULD be really useful would be something like my IRC client.

2. I hate typing in Landscape on this thing. No keyboard I have tried is anywhere near as good as my old HTC EVO keyboard. Is there some way I can get that keyboard onto the S4? I would find it difficult to believe if nobody has ever tried that. Seriously, that keyboard is so good.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] dewrust:
Use root explorer it uses root access

Stock explorer does not

Note:

Using wanam xposed will allow tethering without manually inputting the files. all that is needed is to check off the disable tethering provision and reboot

Adding multi window apps can be done in a few ways.. I think I originally used an xposed module... it unlocked all apps

As for the keyboard it's all in the hands or someone that could port it to the s4... I currently use the note 3

Sent from my SPH-L720
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] PieSniper:
I used ES Explorer. I couldn't edit the necessary files because they're read-only. I need a way around that. As for Wanam Xposed, I don't have the Xposed framework installed, or at least I don't remember loading it. Yeah, I definitely haven't run any installation APKs, so I definitely haven't. If I'm going to have to do anything radical to get this idiotic blocker off of my tethering, can you provide me some simpler instructions? My brain is so burned out after spending hours trying to make this thing work last night.

Wouldn't all apps make it take forever to scroll through? Or does it just make it so you can add all the apps?

Is there someplace here where I could ask someone about doing that or see if someone already has?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] dewrust:
I take no responsibility if anything goes wrong. You are the master of your phone and you are the master of its fate.

I think you are comfortable considering you were ready to mod system files and this is safer

Side note: what you were doing in es explorer can be accomplished with root explorer. I think es is not root privileged. I have done it that way but a higher risk of boot looping if something goes wrong

1)

Xposed framework

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1574401

Wanam xposed apk

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ma.wanam.xposed

2)

Install both

Go into xposed install framework

Reboot

3)

Go back into xposed check off wanam in modules

Go into wanam》system》disable tethering provision

Reboot

4)

You should be good to go

Profit

Multi window unlock

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2048668

As for the keyboard

In the top right there is a search bar(how I found the other links for you) good luck

Sent from my SPH-L720