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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] rbradley51:
I suddenly an unable to move cursor multiple lines in recovery

Suddenly I am unable to move cursor multiple lines in recovery by using volume Up & down

I don't know what I did, but before I started messing around, I was able to move multiple 'lines' in recovery by using the volume Up & Down keys. Then I was trying a new build (just to see if anything had changed), when I realized the curser was only moving one line at a time instead of multiple times as long as the button was down.

So, I went back to Sacs, still unable to move more than one line at a time...

Any help would be appreciated!

Richard B :confused:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Goat1378:
Does any1 know of any free file sharing sites that i can post a download link and not get shut down like dropbox does? Ive tried media fire but its sooooooooooo slow! Thanks for any feed back!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] dragonblue24:
Uh Oh... :eek:

Well I installed the NAE tar with Odin, it passed and it starts up and goes to the sprint screen. But then it says: "Android is upgrading - starting apps" and after that it tells me that unfortunately all kinds of things have stopped (Context Service, LogsProvider, SAE, android.process.acore, com.android.phone) and there is no getting past it each time I click ok there is one of those popping up again immediately.

It also seems to say behind those messages system UIDs inconsistent.

Funny thing is that I can receive a call just not pick it up because of the popups.

I was thinking of trying to install the MK2 tar but you were saying that I can't get back, did I understand that correctly? So what are my options?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] dreamii:
No sound from speaker, Can't do outgoing/incoming calls

Hi,

I am new to rooting phone. I was with my Sprint L720 JB official rom. Then i saw Triforce 5.4 rom and followed the instruction for installation. I used the CWM recovery for installing. After installing, first thing i noticed was no sound from speakers/headphone jack... Then I can't receive or make calls from my phone. It just freezes up for like 5 mins then works again... A little while ago, I figured out that my calls are actually going out and making rings to other phones but on my phone, all i see is blank black screen after I make the call. Likewise, when I receive calls, my phone only vibrates but I can't press anything to pick the call up...

Other than those issues, I can use my phone quite well like data 3g 4g lte, gps, wifi, texting, apps with no sounds ok.. but I can't make calls or receive calls / No sounds from my phone's speakers/headphone jack. Apps that try to play sounds like netflix, youtube always ended up showing an error.. "stopped working".....

Please help!!!!! :crying:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Mistertac:
I'm sure cruise or someone will chime in here but maybe try going into stock recovery and doing a factory data reset and clearing cache. Possibly even reflash the nae again afterwards.

And your correct you cannot go back to mk2 .

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My opinion is that you may just need to reflash that ROM. Making sure to wipe everything prior including Dalvic. I haven't used tri force myself so maybe someone in that thread can help more. Some fixes I've seen on other Roms also included flashing a KToonsez kernel after flashing the ROM.

The issue your having could be caused by a couple things but to troubleshoot it try at least a couple wipes from recovery and either flash that ROM again or try another.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] cruise350:
Something is definitely wrong here, First, do you have an sdcard installed? If you do, remove it and try to boot again, it may be corrupted and causing this behavior. If that doesn't help then you need to do a factory reset in recovery, then odin the nae tar again to see if that fixes it. Also, just to make sure you have the Sprint L720 and not the L720T, they are completely different phones even though they are Sprint S4s. Just trying to rule out possibilities. And, as stated earlier, once you have NAE you can not odin an older version if will fail.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] barelynotlegal:
just wondering if rooting teips knox or is it the flashing that trips it. s4 4.4.2 stock. I want to root to debloat no roms or anything but have 6 montha on warranty and head is spinning from the triangle away forum.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] dewrust:
There are rooting methods that do not trip knox... triangle away only resets system trip not bootloader(knox)

I believe cf auto root is still a safe method but dont quote me on it. I am still on mf9bootloader and have little experience with knox

Sent from my SPH-L720
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] dragonblue24:
Ok, so this is resolved but it turned out to be quite a thing involving a $150 piece of aluminum foil and hillbilly engineering...

The factory reset worked and after that I was able to load the NAE tar, so far so good.

But my wifi reception still sucked. And then I tripped and broke the glass on my phone.

Since the system was back to stock I went to the sprint store to see what their take was on the poor wifi performance.

The tech opened the phone and found that one of the spring contacts for the wifi antenna was broken. Normally they would have exchanged it because I received the phone like that but since my glass is broken he said there is nothing they can do because I can't prove it was not working before the damage and that I have to get a replacement phone through the insurance which costs $150 deductible.

So I went home opened the phone up and since I now know where that contact was went ahead with tweezers and a magnifying glass and stuck a tiny folded piece of aluminum foil (no copper at hand that thin) into the remaining stub of the contact. And tadaaaa! Full wifi reception!

Now I just have to wait until the replacement glass arrives... for $5. In your face Asurion and your 150 bucks deductible! :victory:

Thanks y'all for the help and advice!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Mistertac:
That's great lol macgyvered that s4 at least it's working again and you saved $150
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] cbraiders:
Mk2 Hotspot mod update

Just flashed with cwm. Works.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] SpringerRider:
You are close. You might want to try and flash something real clean like Triforce. Do a full wipe and flash it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] sandman515:
Thanks to everyone who responded. I was able to take this into Best Buy and get them to flash NAF using the Samsung SMART tool they have.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] cbraiders:
CWM vs. TWRP

Just wondering people's preference. Always used cwm on my epic touch. Tried twrp on my s4 since it was the latest and greatest. Bricked phone twice flashing a rom and then a kernel. Don't know for sure if it was the recovery. I have the stock rooted KitKat zip on my phone. Hesitant to flash. BTW I did make a nand before but couldn't even boot into recovery.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] exeleon:
Philz touch all the way. It's cwm based haven't had any problems with it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Mistertac:
+1 on Philz .

Its got so many more options and customization to it in my opinion and I've never had an issue flashing any ROM on it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] reporanger:
ROM for Galaxy Gear

Hello thank you first off for the nob friendly opening, Finally!!! I'm running Slim-4.4.2.build.3-Offical-3055 Kernel Version 3.4.78-KT-SGS4-gc30c87e autobuild@slimgerrit #1 Build Number slim_jfltespr-userdebug 4.4.2 KOT49H 3055 test-keys. I hope that's what you will need to answer my question. I'm having a problem with a lot of different kinds of apps not working at all and I my Galaxy Gear will not work with it either. And suggestions will be greatly appreciated. And I'm not just completely sold on the ROM I'm using that I can not change to another one. Thank you.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] makipsee:
Im am trying to restore date but when i do a custom restore in philz6 recovery it asks me which file and these r the files for data data.context, data.ext4.tar, data.ext4.tar.a, data.ext4.tar.b and data.ext4.tar.c which do i choose?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] bioshocked:
I've heard of people having issues with galaxy gear on slim kat 4.4

Mostly related to issues with gear manager not working. Have you tried pairing with blue tooth? Also, you could try this,

http://www.xda-developers.com/android/pair-your-samsung-galaxy-gear-with-non-samsung-devices/

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is there a specific reason you Wana do a custom restore instead of just the basic restore with boot, system, data, ect? Also, was the backup you're trying to restore made in philz6? And check the backup and restore settings in philz to make sure "TWRP Format isn't selected. Unless you are trying to restore a TWRP backup.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] bioshocked:
I also believe the method in the link I posted for you gets rid of the need to be on a touchwiz based rom, that might be your only option since your slim is AOSP based.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Nuenjin:
I have the MF9 bootloader, I've been running the Triforce MK2 rom with mk2 modem firmware. I am attempoting to retain the MF9 bootloader and move on to an NAE rom. I followed Mudavo's directions here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2277480

And everything worked fine. But then I discovered that I forgot to flash the new modem first. So I went back into odin and attempted to flash the modem, thinking that the worst thing that wold happen is that I would have to do some wipes and re-flash the stock rom.

But odin failed. When I tried to reboot I got the kies screen and message- "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies and try again"

I tried to flash NAE stock rooted, failed; Philz recovery, failed; mf9 stock rooted, failed. I just tried the MF9 stock factory restore one-click exe and it too failed.

Does anyone know a good solution to this?

Solution-- I tried flashing twrp recovery in odin3 and it worked, it booted up to the stock rooted nae with mf9 bootloader. I think I tried to flash Philz recovery earlier with odin1.85.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] bioshocked:
Im made a similar mistake the first time I flashed that rom. Thought my phone was trash. First, what version of philz did you flash? 6.08 like suggested? And you completed all the steps up to the stock rooted NAE? So you would have NAE firmware currently? just forgot the modem right? BTW that ROM is really reliable, just be warned, there's a good amount of bloat ware, I still loved the ROM tho, unknownforce's stuff is always good.

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Good to hear man. Usually for anything MK2 or newer I use odin3.07 or higher. Just have better luck that way.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] tcooper85:
Hey i am new to the gs4 and i am trying to install my rom and it says i have to have philz recovery and everywhere i look to try to download it it doesn't give me a download link it just gives me something like jfltespr idk what i am supposed to be doing. to be able to download and install this recovery
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] bioshocked:
Jfltespr=sprint galaxy S4, have you ever flashed a custom recovery? And also, you need root permission first. If this is your first time I would make sure to do a little reading first to be on the safe side. Here's a like to the latest Philz, http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2322679
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] tcooper85:
yes i have flashed a customer recovery before i just don't see where i download it at?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] bioshocked:
okay, so I'll assume you already have root permission., open the link I posted in my last comment, and then open the link shown my first screen shot, then, scroll down to jfltespr and click, then select the version of philz you desire. (First screen shot is the third one actually. Upload error.)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] tcooper85:
Thanks alot that helped me out. i downloaded one but it was the wrong one i got this working and i am good to go thanks alot once again
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] bioshocked:
No problem dude anytime. Glad you got it all booted.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] makipsee:
I use a custom restore b/c after i flash an updated rom i restore my date so i have all my messages, apps and settings. yes the backup was made in philz6, the "use TWRP Mode" is NOT selected.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] bioshocked:
well, I dug a little deeper and used my girls phone (sprint Gs4, same as mine) using philz and made a custom data only backup like you said you had, and I have to ask, has this ever worked successfully in the past? I too get the "data context", "data.ext4.tar", "data.ext4.tar.a" ect. One thing I found is that each seperate "data context", "data.ext4.tar" ect, when restored individually, each has a size of exactly 910Mb, On my girls phone she had less data than you so it only went to "data context"-"data.ext4.tar-"data.ext4.tar.a" no "tar.b or c" were present. when I preformed a regular (not custom) restore, the total data restore size was 2800Mb, whiich is the size of all those different data backups combined. I tried every pastern of restoring these files, one after the other with wipe data prior/and without, just restoring one then rebooting, any combination you could thing of, all resulting in nothing but the "Blank has stopped working messages" repeating to the point it the phone was inoperable. I WOULD !!!NOT!!! SUGGEST this method of app and message data back up. simply because different ROMs prefer different custom recoverys, like philz or twrp ect, all will back up data in a slightly different format and it will just be a headache. May I ask why you dont just use Titanium Backup??? It has worked wonders for me on a ton of diff custom roms. *****also, What version of Philz are you using? 6.0.4.6?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] riceeeeeeeeee:
Long story short, I forgot my phone was full updated on the stock firm and did the 1 click auto root than flashed philz custom recovery thinking I was rooted and found out I wasnt when I tried to go into recovery mode. I than tried to factory restore my phone so I can reroot it but this happened/failed factory reset.

Heres what it says

Odin mode

Product name sph l720

Current binary-custom

system status-custom

knox kernel lock 0x0

knox warrenty void 0x1

csb confib lsb 0x30

write protection enable

emmc burst mode enable

start[224,1440]

sw rev. check fail fused :5 binary 1:

Any help to get my phone to factory setting is much appreciated.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] patrockss:
From Download mode (pwr button + volume down)

Odin full nae tar.md5 file from sammobile then odin the latest cf auto root and then install / odin philz_touch_6.08.9-jfltespr.tar.md5 or latest version.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] bioshocked:


Had the same thing happen on my brothers phone. Also, when the kies emergency firmware screen is showing, that's no different that being download mode. Can flash tar files with Odin through the kies screen just like the down load screen. What version of Odin were you running? I have a working official NAE 4.4.2.tar.md5, TOOK forever to find a non corrupted one. If you need it just PM me and I gotcha. Most NAE.TAR files on the Internet are corrupt and have band write failures.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] koloheboi:
phone freezes at sprint page on reboot...

I need help... I was having a hard time with certain KK roms not working properly on my phone and switched to a stock rooted kk rom. I backed up my data in hopes I could restore it to the new kk rom. my mistake... I flashed the data and now my phone won't go past the yellow sprint page on reboot. I tried rebooting into recovery and even that doesn't work. I don't know what else to do... did I brick my phone? please help...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] bioshocked:
Are you still able to boot into download mode? If so you should be able to flash the official NAE md5 from odin, then you could reroot and flash as needed.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] makipsee:
well first thing when i make the backup its a standard back up. and i just use a custom restore. also when i use the restore im using the same rom just an updated version. i think i just used tar.a and that restored everything. i have been using this method of restore since i started modding my samsung moment. b/c it restored everything in one shot. i have had nothing but problems with actual apps that preform backups. im using 6.0.4.7
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] bioshocked:
so out of the 5 data backup files just selecting tar.a completely restored your data? hmm. And I misunderstood I thought you meant restoring data from one ROM to different ROM like, like example AOKP to OMNI or ect. well either way I'm glad tar.a restored all your data, its a real pain losing all of it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] cruise350:
This is the wrong way to do this. If you restore the data partition after installing a rom it is worse than doing a dirty install of the Rom. Your better off just installing the Rom over your existing data instead of wiping. You see, when you restore a data partition you are also overwriting any files that the Rom developer might have added to the data partition so you may have just wrecked what makes the Rom good.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] makipsee:
i usually check the data folder of the rom before flashing most the the time they put the important stuff in the system/app folder
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] ford9050:
Hi guys, I have a question. I unrooted and superuser was working great but when i flashed the triforce 5.4 rom now it says "there is no binary installed, and super su cannot install it. this is a problem." do I need to worry about this? The rom is working fine. Should I plug in odin and try to root phone again? After i installed this rom i got supersu from play store. root checker also says i do not have proper root access
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] envoy3015:
wifi will not turn on.

My phone is rooted. I recently did the OTA update for Kit Kat and every since I can not turn on my wifi. When I try to switch it on from settings it goes back gray. I have rooted my phone again since I think I lost root during update. I don't know what else to do and any help would be greatly appreciated.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] snakester:
I feel so stupid asking this, because back in the day I was ridiculous. I rooted and ROMmed the hell out of my old Android phones (mainly an old Droid, but I had a Droid X for a little while), and then went iOS. Well, a month or two ago (not counting the half month had a Galaxy Note 3 and left Verizon because they were being knobs) I came back and got an HTC One, and even with rooting and ROMs I couldn't get it to be where I needed it. The battery was nonreplacable and garbage for what I do, and the camera blew and made everything pink.

Fast forward to now. I got an S4 off Swappa and I'm really enjoying it. So much so to the point that I don't wanna root it yet. Plus all the talk of KNOX kind of intimidates me. HOWEVER, I'm running into an issue where my phone is refusing to roam. Sprint postpaid includes Verizon roaming, and although Sprint is quite good around here, there are small pockets here and there where I'd like to have baseline voice coverage, and this phone doesn't have the ability to turn it on, and all the places that my HTC One would roam, this thing is showing no signal. Where the Auto and Home Only settings usually are on Sprint Android phones, I get nothing. Sprint CS is useless, as always.

I guess my question is how can I keep this as close to stock as possible ,but restore my ability to roam. Hell, I don't even want to force roam, I just want to be able to have a freaking fallback in these small dead zones.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] font1135:
Roaming notification sound

I have an Unrooted s4 with 4.4.2 kit kat. I just want to know if there is a way to turn off the roaming notification sound. My phone goes in and out of roaming all day at work and the beep comes through my earbuds ALL DAY. I assume this is a touch wiz feature. I dont want to put it in airplane mode cause i want to still send text and get emails. Please Help
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] cbraiders:
Safest way to get from mk2 to nea

Should I Odin the stock firmware then cf autoroot. Or Odin the nea modem then flash the stock rooted? Or can I flash sacs KitKat directly? Lastly, should I remove the SD card to be safe?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] riceeeeeeeeee:
Ah, I tried that before I posted but the reset failed and gave me that list as I posted earlier.

Anyone else have insight on this problem?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] electrickoolaid:
I apologize if this has been addressed before; I looked all through the forums shortly after 4.4.2 came out and couldn't find an answer:

I have the SPH-L720, rooted but still on the stock ROM for 4.3 (Software ver. L720VPUEMK2) with the WiFi Hotspot hack/mod (HotSpotMod_MK2_Odexed, found somewhere on this forum). I am running TWRP v2.6.3.0 for the recovery.

My phone keeps bugging me about an OTA update to Android 4.4.2. I attempted to install it, but it gave an error about the custom recovery and did not successfully install. Is there any way around this-- meaning, can I get the stock version of KitKat while rooted w/ a non-stock recovery image? I don't want to install a custom ROM on this phone just yet if it's at all possible to update to 4.4.2 without doing so (and while maintaining root and the HotSpotMod).

Thanks in advance.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] cruise350:
Download the NAE full tar file from Random45's thread in the android development section, download the latest version of cf autoroot, download the new NAE odexed hotspot mod from fgr's thread in the android development thread. Odin the NAE tar file using Odin 3.07 or newer, this will take you to 4.4.2 stock unrooted with no data loss. Now use the new copy of cf autoroot in Odin to reroot. Use goo manager app to reinstall twrp and flash the NAE hotspot odexed mod to your phone. You will then be upgraded to kit kat, rooted, have your hotspot mod, and all of your data and settings will be intact.

Don't forget to extract the NAE stock tar file from the zip first before odining it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] electrickoolaid:
Simple enough. For those following along at home, here are the threads and files mentioned:

[ROM][TAR] Stock NAE Odin flashable (from Random45)

[MOD] [NAE] [MK2] [Odex] [DeOdex] Enable Native HotSpot (from fgr)

CF-Auto-Root Repository (outdated?)

Latest version of Odin (haven't found it yet) EDIT: This thread contains a link to Odin v3.07.

TWRP latest version 2.7.0.1

Thank you sir/madam. If it works, I'll let y'all know. If it doesn't work... I'll probably be right here letting you know just the same.

EDIT2: Before I actually do this, some clarification on the settings used when "odining" would be appreciated. There's a lot of buttons that could be pushed and I don't understand what most of them do.