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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] mr.toyou:
Gotta post something so any news on next update for s4
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] razcat64:
OK I have had my sprint s4 since last sept. I'm coming from the s2. The last phone that I messed around with in this way was my touch pro 2. Never rooted my s2. Finally decided to root my s4 my question is what's the best stock ROM out there I'm just so tired of the bloat.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] churchey360:
Are you on NAE 4.4.2? Negalite is pretty good its easy to flash and never really has any major problems, it also has a custom kernel.

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Here is the download link for it.

http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23329332407585569
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] razcat64:
Thanks I am on NAE 4.4.2 I will give this one a try
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] knuckhead:
I'm wanting to do the same and install something good that gets rid of the bloatware. All the talk about Knox, what doesn't work, bricking, etc. has me a little scared to try doing something. I did a lot of installing roms on my previous S2 but it seems more confusing now.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Nunyo415:
Noob question here.

Recently flashed to Vanir 4.4.2 nightlies ROM from Team Sonic FreeGS4, and I'm liking it a lot. I'm having a couple of problems, however, that I can't seem to figure out.

Being an AOSP ROM, I guess Vanir doesn't support the stock GS4 camera app, so I'm using the google camera, which seems to work fine, except for the HDR feature. Whenever I try to take pics with HDR mode selected, they come out as a blank gray picture. The regular camera works fine, and all the other modes do too. Any ideas on what the problem might be?

Another problem, my SD card is exFAT formatted, and it isn't recognized by this ROM. I can see it and everything on it when I boot into recovery (TWRP 2.7.0.1). Is there a fix so that exFAT is recognized, or would I have to reformat my SD card to another system?

Thanks so much in advance for your guys' help!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] exeleon:
I can't advise on your issue with your sd; i'm not too familiar with that kind of thing. As for your issue with Google camera, I would suggest flashing kt kernel. No guarantees it will def work, but it definitely resolved my issues with google cam. (Mine was force closing whenever I tried to get into the settings) Even if you still have problems with the camera you'll still be left with a pretty badass kernel! Good choice on vanir, it's a great ROM!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] razcat64:
Another silly question but just wanted to confirm. Let's say I choose to stay stock rooted but don't want all the bloat. Would I be able to just flash a custom kernel with all the bloat removed and other features that I want such as WiFi tether instead of flashing a new ROM completly?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] churchey360:
You can flash a custom kernel and use titanium backup app from the playstore to remove whatever bloat you don't want and flash a hotspot mod to get your hot spot working
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] jazzzyjazzy6:
gs4 sprint version running 4.4.2 won't play music or move some apps

Hi

I have a non rooted sprint gs4.

And since I got the recommended sd card for it. (By a sprint tech) my music hasn't been playing right and my apps won't all move. They will move over but then went I turn the phone off or it died . When it turns back on the apps I moved say they are not installed. And I've tried 4 different music players and still I keep getting an error has occurred with more then half my music. But I put them on via kies. So I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.

Can some one help me please ??
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] churchey360:
Are you on the NAE update? I have a feeling that it might be because the NAE update doesn't allow you to write to your SD card or internal storage. So for instance if you download something to your downloads folder in your internal storage it can't be deleted. Just wondering can you delete anything from your micro SD card?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Nunyo415:
I'm on a NAE 4.4.2 ROM, and mentioned earlier that my sd card wasn't recognized. Could this be the reason why?

Any insight as to why they disabled that feature?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] churchey360:
Yeah I think it was something they forgot to put in the build.prob about the SD cards so the phone doesn't recognize them now, and they also removed the function to write to your internal and external storage so it's read only instead of read/write like it really should be so now you can only view the stuff that you downloaded on your phone or media storage but you cant move them to another folder or even delete them, they messed up big time.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] jazzzyjazzy6:
Is there any way to fix this? Cause I mainly got this phone for music and video and picture. :(
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] churchey360:
Root it and flash a custom rom or kernel
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] two27:
Hi I'm running 4.2.2 with MF9, I never updated my phone unless it was updated out of the package. My question is which Root guide should I use, it seems they are all targeted towards 4.3 and above.

Is the motochopper method outdated? And how can I keep MF9, or not gain knox etc?

A simple link will do. thanks :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] wyan49:
I dun goof'd

Hey all. I'm new to the forums. Anyway, I have a question.

I soft bricked my phone. Obviously, it's an S4. I rooted it using Odin 3.09, and everything was great. Then, I tried to install the TriForce rom. It said it was installed successfully, but then it just sent me into a boot loop. I had backed everything up (I'm using twrp) but when I tried to restore that backup, the boot loop continued. Now I have no idea what to do. I've tried using Odin to flash back to stock, but either I'm using the wrong files or something else is going on that is preventing me from getting past the loop. Right now, I can boot to stock recovery, and Odin is still recognizing my phone just fine, but I don't know what to do at this point. I've searched through the forums, but I haven't found anything that works. I do need to get this fixed fairly quickly. Any suggestions? I didn't want to start a new thread, so I decided to post here. Thanks.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] churchey360:
[MENTION=5848352]wyan49[/MENTION] Flash a custom recovery on your phone with Odin and then put your micro sd card in another phone and download CyanogenMod 11 then put it back in your phone and flash it, or download CyanogenMod 11 on your computer and transfer it to your micro sd card.

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Latest philz recovery http://goo.im/devs/philz_touch/CWM_Advanced_Edition/jflte/philz_touch_6.40.1-jflte.zip
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] wyan49:
Thanks for your reply. So just flash the zip from the link to my sd, then put cm11 on it and flash that? Just to make sure I'm reading this correctly.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] churchey360:
Sorry I meant to post the .tar file and you have to flash this with Odin http://goo.im/devs/philz_touch/CWM_Advanced_Edition/jflte/philz_touch_6.40.1-jflte.tar.md5

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But do the CyanogenMod 11 part just like you said after flashing the custom recovery. That's why I always keep a ROM saved on my SD card
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] wyan49:
I tried flashing the cm11 zip from the sd in stock recovery, that didn't work. I'm currently trying to flash back to stock but it said the "footer was wrong" and it failed. Still in a loop. I'll try the new .tar you posted.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] churchey360:
You can't flash with stock recovery.

Download the 2nd file I provided you and flash it with Odin and you will be able to flash CyanogenMod
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] wyan49:
Ok, it's not even letting me flash that. It just immediately fails when I try to.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] JerryGNYC:
You can use this if you're rooted - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nextapp.sdfix
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] jazzzyjazzy6:
root?

How do I root my gs4. With out flashing other roms on. I just want to put that app on. Dont wanna change roms or anything advanced like that.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] JerryGNYC:
You'll need to go here - http://autoroot.chainfire.eu/

and download the file for the SPH-L720. Follow the instructions there for ODIN flashable devices. You need to run Odin (it's in the zip file) from a PC. Make sure you use the Samsung USB cable to do this, believe it or not, lots of people have had trouble with non-Samsung cables.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Aweshocked:
What exactly is a bootloader, and how do i know which i have and if it is unlocked or not? I'm on the MJA modem and whenever I try to update to NAE , it says pass in Odin but in about phone it still says MJA
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] JhoonB51:
I think the problem may be how you enter download mode. Do not use restart and choose download, instead power phone off completely and use volume up and power buttons. Also may help after pass hold power button for 10 seconds to restart phone.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Aweshocked:
Ill try this, also whenevr i try to install Sacs custom rom it bootloops on the red android. I've clean flashed it 12 times, do I need the NAE modem first?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] JhoonB51:
Yes, NAE modem first. Remember when installing Sac's after you perform your wipes it is imperative that you

first

reboot back into recovery then flash the rom.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] iride85:
sprint s4

can anyone help me I checked nand erase in odin 3.09 and now I cant flash a rom or anything
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] JhoonB51:
I did a litlte searching on XDA and google, you might want to read through this thread to get some ideas on what you may need to do. The thread is dated however it may work or lead you to a more modern version of the fix for your phone.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=30386309&postcount=1
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] al4d:
Nandroid backup question: Can't read/write to SD after resore.

I am having a problem with my nandroid backups and I'm wondering if anyone has any thoughts on how to fix it.

Background:

I am running rooted stock L720TVPUBNC6. I used CF Auto Root. Recovery is TWRP 2.7.0.1. I have run NextApp SDFix to address the problem with SD cards on KitKat.

Problem:

When I restore a nandroid backup, I have trouble writing to both the internal SD and the external SD with certain apps.

Example:

I cannot open or download email attachments and I cannot export files from Dropbox. I get error messages and download always fails. Also, I cannot archive voicemails (but I can delete) and I get an error message from the voicemail app"Move Error" "Unable to move a message". BUT, I can create, edit and delete files and folders using Root Explorer on both internal and external SD, so at least some apps can read and write to both SD storages.

Current "work-around":

After restoring a nandroid backup, I unroot the phone and re-root it. No data is lost, and I restore the capability to download from email and Dropbox.

Question:

I would like to be able to restore a backup without having to unroot and re-root every time which is time consuming, a pain in the neck, and requires that I have access to a computer.

Does anyone have any thoughts on this problem and a possible solution.

Thanks in advance.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] JhoonB51:
I would suggest you try FolderMount from the playstore (free), install it will ask if you want to fix problems, done. Youcan then uninstall if you like, fixes will remain.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] vadyr56:
I've searched for this issue but can't seem to find anything like it. When I toggle WiFi on it takes about 5 minutes to turn on or doesn't turn on at all. The icon goes to that half lit look but just hangs there for a long time and then either connects or turns itself off. Its more or less unusable, as I could be doing what I need to on slow data and have it done by the time WiFi connects, if it even does. I'm on MK2 stock with MK2 baseband and KT's latest kernel. Any help would be appreciated :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] JhoonB51:
That must be KT's 4-28, some issues have been reported, I have been using KT 4-02 with no problems, may want to give it a try.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] al4d:
That seems to have done the trick! Thanks!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] vadyr56:
I was hoping that was the issue but I have tried several older releases now and none have fixed the issue. Now my WiFi is actually stuck in "turning on" even through reboots, which is quite odd. I have never seen anything like the issue I had to start, and now it got a lot weirder, or more weirder as I like to say.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] JhoonB51:
There is another kernel that works well with this rom, it's Negamann's Negalite Kernel. It can be found here:

http://download.negalite.com/
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Jimlarck:
I have a soft bricked Sprint Galaxy S4 and I'm trying to revert back to stock using Odin, I can't boot into recovery because it says Firmware Upgrade encountered an issue (I tried reverting it but it failed because I probably didn't have the correct one).

My phone was originally updated to the first 4.3 update. Can anyone link me to the full stock tar?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] churchey360:
Here is the MK2 .tar file but you need to create an account to download it.

http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/3/?download=23147
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] vadyr56:
Tried that kernel after seeing your response, that kernel runs well but it didn't solve my problem. I tried for hours and hours to fix the issue on the MK2 setup, but to no avail. And I have been running KTs kernel with no issue prior to all of this nonsense. It finally dawned on me that it almost seemed like a corrupt file or permission issue, so I did dome digging on that and made some changes in my build.prop file and it seemed to fix it. After making the jump to NAE as a last ditch effort and still had the same issue anyway, of course, but I imagine it would fix it on MK2 also. Running stock NAE with KTs kernel now and everything seems well. I never had the issue while running rawintellects MK2 build but as soon as I switched to vanilla MK2/NAE it was consistent despite what kernel I was running...weird stuff.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] JhoonB51:
Glad you got it worked out.....surprised that you were able at all without the NAE modem.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] jdubbs13:
How come only nexus lockrings work on my phone. Is their a way to edit others so they work I'm running a custom rom
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] knck out:
Hey everyone im pretty new here, I posted this in another section of these forums but i realized it might be better suited here

Anyways..i recently hopped over to the S4 from an iphone and immediatley wanted to root my device and install a google play edition rom..so i did.

Though i realized after i was done, that i could now no longer activate my device...so i decided i had to return back to stock (L720VPUFNAE)

Although once i got back to stock my phone was stuck in a boot loop...i went into recovery mode and did a factory reset but no joy

Its a sprint galaxy s4, lph-l720

I was wondering if anyone knew what i should try to do next? Really wanna get this device running!

- Thanks in advance!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] churchey360:
Yeah the Gpe ROM isn't the best, you should of just flashed CyanogenMod 11

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Also what .tar file are you flashing with Odin is it the NAE?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] jdubbs13:
What tar and what recovery
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] 31ken31:
I have a stock/rooted 720t. Went to turn on wifi and it flashed light green (not Grey or green like usual). Hot spot refuses to turn on as well... phone is bone stock including recovery. I have tried clearing cache in recovery a few times. Then factory reset. Then wiped again. And still nothing. Does anyone have any idea what's up with this phone?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] hueblo:
How to enable Input Notification

hello I'm running 4.3 Stock(ish)v06 - Rom and the developer has disabled the input notification. I was just wondering is there just one way to disable it? and is it easy to re-enable it? I tried posting on the forum but have not heard from the developer yet.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] jdubbs13:
Why not just swap out the ROM to a KitKat version
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] JerryGNYC:
I don't think Rawintellect is going to return to supporting that ROM.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] joe.stay:
Just got update notification for MF9 to MJA. Are they sending out new notification for people who haven't updated. I don't want to update.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] dewrust:
Just drag the notification down, press and hold the update notification untill app info pops up, select and uncheck notifications
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] refugeinshadows:
I still haven't been able to find anything

I have a Sprint SGS4 rooted and running a custom ROM (I started with cm11, went to the beanstalk 4.4.2, tried the sacs ROM, and am currently using and very happy with slimkat official). There is a problem that I have been running into across all of the ROMs (I initially switched ROMs to see if it was a bug in the ROM or not). Ever since rooting my device, the front facing video recording for snapchat has quit working. The rear camera video recording works and will send, and all other camera related apps work flawlessly, except the front facing video, the red ring will go around the circle, but the screen will not move, and then after I finish recording, it says that the video "cannot be played" and crashes. In an effort to check for it being a bug in the most recent snapchat, I re-installed it, and also tried using apks to previous versions (like ones I had before root that were fully functioning), and it still crashed. I've gone all over the web and not really found anything. It's not the most important thing in the world, because well, it's just snapchat, but it would be helpful if anyone had an idea on a fix for it.

PS the front and rear camera both work for pictures in snapchat, it's just the front recording.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] churchey360:
Can we not use Hotspot unless we are rooted? I just went back to stock NAE and I wanna use hotspot but I don't wanna subscribe to it because it's not worth it.. it's $20 for 2gb a month that's not that much at all...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Nunyo415:
Pretty sure you have to be rooted to bypass the sprint subscription. That's what made me root my phone in the first place.

On another note, I'm trying to switch over to sacs custom rom from vanir, and am having some trouble with the phone getting stuck on the splash screen after installing the new rom. I'm pretty sure I've followed the installation instructions listed. Can anyone tell me what a "clean install" means, as opposed to dirty? I've done the required wipes (data, cache, dalvik), factory reset; is there anything else I need to do?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] churchey360:
Are you trying to install v3?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] dewrust:
"Clean" is wiping system information off the phone. Usually done in recovery and installing the rom on a clean slate

"Dirty" is just flashing the new rom over the old. Normally only done when staying on the same rom build or modding
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] flu13:
I'm running a relatively old version of ForceROM on Sprint. I recently have had a notification appear: System Update Downloaded - Touch to Install."

Well, I don't want to install. I thought I had disabled these messages in the past by disabling notifications from Google Services Framework, but that is still disabled. I long-press on the notification and it shows me that the app is Google Play Services. I don't want to turn off updates for that for fear that I will miss notifications about app updates.

Any advice?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Nunyo415:
I was trying to install v4. Finally got it to stick and load. I'm embarrassed to say that I don't know exactly what I'm doing to get things to work, just trying a whole bunch of different things...flying blind almost. When it works, I just leave it, but then I'll find a few gremlins and not know how to go about fixing them. I've been pretty lucky I haven't bricked my phone yet.

Anyway, running v4 now, am now having problems with the lockscreen wallpaper. I flashed the wallpaper fix, and can change my regular wallpaper, but it crashes out of settings when I try to change my lockscreen wallpaper. I've also flashed comadose 3.5, but can't find the settings on my phone maybe because I have the S5 settings option?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] TheCrow1372:
Anyone notice that 'Photos' is gone after last update??
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] wills0301:
magnetic sensor

hi，my l720 have problem with the magnetic sensor ,the sensor selftest says “fail”，but all the other sensors test are pass.only magnetic sensor fail.i do not know why. but it can be corrected,the app also can point to the north normally. but the self test still says fail.so somebody can help？ thanks very much
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] WarAxe:
Try running the self test with the device sitting on a flat surface.

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What do folks running custom ROMs usually do for updating your PRLs?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] wills0301:
sensor

ok，thank u， i tried on the flat surface but still sys fail. the noise power test is pass,tahe other test and sensors are good.only the magnetic sensor fail

any other ways?thank u.one of my friend also l720,his test says pass.

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yes

i used a folk rom. it is a chinese rom

named auro 1.3

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i heard use the terminal emulater can help ,maybe. but i do not know how to do it ,i do not know about the linux