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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] PieSniper:
Thanks. I'll try all of that and then get back to you if anything doesn't work.

I tried Root Explorer, but unfortunately, it still didn't work. (Top kek, can't post an image link yet. But what it said was that I can't modify it because it is read-only.)

So I'll take your advice and go for the Xposed upgrade. Here goes! :cowboy:

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Yep... I had a problem.

Wanam Xposed has the option to add more stuff to Multi-Window, so that's taken care of. And now I can rotate my screen into the upside-down position, which is great, but holding down Home is now functioning as though I had held down Power, which is awful, and I still am being denied access to Hotspot.

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Fixed the Home button. But tethering still doesn't work. In fact, I also tried USB tethering, and while I was allowed to turn it on, my computer isn't connecting with it. :crying:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] karl0720:
Voice+

I am overseas currently deployed and I wanted to know can you get Voice+ to work on Sac Rom v5.2 as this is my source of communication with people back in the states. I installed the app through

CyanogenMod App Installer

and I keep getting "Permission unavailable: android.permission.INTERCEPT_SMS"

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] dewrust:
Have you tried running fix permissions

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@piesniper

So I'm taking you tried the wanam 》 system 》 disable tethering provision

Sorry I made a mistake it is root browser

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jrummy.root.browserfree

I recommend just adding a ".bak" to the end of the files you are replacing

AND A NANOID BACKUP JUST IN CASE

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] karl0720:
Is fix permission am app?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] churchey360:
Is the new sprint s4 going to have its own thread for roms or can it use the roms that the old s4 uses?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] exeleon:
Fix permissions can be found in your recovery. If you installed this via the CM app installer from Google Play, that app was designed for de-odex roms only. I haven't gotten a chance to check whether Sacs rom is de-odex'd or not, but that something you might want to look into. Have you tried installing the voice+ app by itself through Google Play?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] dewrust:
There is a section for sprint s4s. Roms are not cross carrier

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] karl0720:
Yes I tried installing just the app and it installed just fine. However I still get the same permission unavailable message.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] dewrust:
Try this

Check out "ROM Manager"

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.koushikdutta.rommanager

At the bottom of the app is fix permissions

Reboot after its done

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] PieSniper:
Welp, to get my Nandroid backup I had to install a custom Recovery. I tried re-flashing the mod on said Recovery, and viola, it worked that time. I guess the custom Recovery was better than the stock one.

So, I now have my laptop tethered to my phone's connection. Awesome. Feel so accomplished. :good:

I may even try playing a round of online Mario Kart 7 over the connection just to say I did. :cool:

So, now the only big issues I have left that come to mind right now are the keyboard, which my search didn't seem to help, and my crap voicemail.

The keyboard is now AS big of an issue, as I tried SwiftKey, and it's so legit. It's almost as good as MUH BASED EVO KEYBOARD, but because I can't customize certain things about it, it still falls short. They space bar is too big, the question mark should be one key higher, and the automatic spaces can't be turned off. Those are hard to get used to and can mess you up. Also, you seemingly can't say something not in the dictionary very easily without adding it to the dictionary. It also lacks some symbols that others have.

But back to the probably more easily fixed issue. Is it possible to throw out the crappy stock voicemail at all and replace it with something better? If not, is it possible to at least enable transcription without having to pay for it, and, more importantly, is it possible to STOP THOSE ACCURSED NOTIFICATIONS FROM STICKING AROUND UNTIL I LISTEN TO EVERY SINGLE MESSAGE? Man, voicemail is SO last decade. Just leave a text! Pretty sure most people are capable of that.

Durr, the forced autocorrect is gonna force me to switch to another keyboard to enter the CAPTCHA. :mad:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] dewrust:
Yea stock recovery is only good for otas

You can change keyboard setting in settings》(somewhere there is inputs)

Select the keyboard you are using and you can turn off spacing, correction, caps etc

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] PieSniper:
You can normally make those changes, but some toggles just aren't present for SwiftKey. Even though it has some others that I haven't seen as options for other 'boards.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] dewrust:
Did you press the cog next to the keyboard?

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] PieSniper:
Oh, aside from my Voicemail woes, there are other apps that also won't stop running themselves in the background when, as far as I know, I'm not using them. One such example is Google Plus. The app, Greenify, takes care of a lot of those, but not every app can be Greenified with Greenify. For example, I can't touch Google Plus with it. How Greenify non Greenifiable apps?

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But of course. I tried it that way, and by going in through the app icon.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] dewrust:
I hear if you buy greenify you can green those apps

I guess swift does not let you have that option

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Goat1378:
This question is for anyone. Does any1 know where( Like which file in the phone system) Black Out Apps get installed?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] dewrust:
I thought that they were a modded apk and installed like any other app.. I. Could be wrong

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] flacraker:
I've had good luck with most of the black out apps except for the email.. It just won't stick ugh.. Some install like a regular app, and some have to be flashed thru recover.. But the stock app has to be removed first from what ive tried so far...

I'm running sacs 4.3 V5.2
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] abstract2389:
i'm not that savvy in rooting phones and flashing roms. that being said i'm trying or was trying to get my s4 back to stock.

a while ago i was stuck using a custom rom because i forgot to make a backup. i messed things up pretty bad, i forget how. i didn't have twrp anymore and i didn't know i could flash a rom through odin so i basically gave up on trying to get my phone stock. anyway long story short, i downloaded the stock 4.3 rom from here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2258107. after i finally troubleshooted my way through (took me a long time, i kept receiving some error message that "uids were inconsistent, wipe partitions" and applications kept failing over & over so i couldn't get into the phone, kept having to take out my battery to turn it off) and got 4.3 working there's some problems with it. wi-fi doesn't turn on is the main problem i'm experiencing.

also, after i installed 4.3 i rooted the phone again. so it is currently rooted.

i just want a fully stock fully functional rom saved as my backup so when i'm flashing i can always revert back to that. is it strange/abnormal that i want to do this? does anyone keep a stock rom on backup or do you guys just continuously flash new roms?

i tried to download the 4.2.2 and see if that would work but every time i download it (4 hours) it gives me some error message as soon as it finishes. maybe if i tried re-installing the 4.3 again?

also another question i have is, where do you guys normally save your backups? do you save them onto your phone and move them onto your computer?

and i apologize if any of this comes off as retarded, heh.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Raistlin1:
Just picked up a slightly used S4 that is on the MDL build and I have been reading and reading on here and I just cannot make up my mind on which way to set this thing up for my wife.

Flash the MF9 rooted one click and then odin philz recovery and then flash 4.3 rom and radio or just take the OTA to 4.3 (MK2 I believe) and then hope that the cf auto root will stick and flash philz recovery so that I can flash wireless tether. I bought phone used of CL so I am not too concerned about warranty, so flash counts don't really matter. With that being said when I had my E4GT I always flashed in a way that did not increase my flash count because that phone did have insurance, so I am sorta programmed to not increase the flash count.

I am trying to get the latest official 4.3 rom rooted with tether working for my wife, don't really care if I have Knox or not but want to really make sure I make the right decision since I don't have knox yet and would hate to upgrade and have Knox and regret it at some point.

Thanks
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] exeleon:
I personally would root with cf autoroot, flash philz touch recovery, flash sac's v5.2 ROM and odin to the mk2 modem only from unknownforce (linked below) doing it this way, the only thing that won't be up to date is the bootloader and tethering is integrated into the ROM.

Unknownforce's thread

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2338919
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] dewrust:
+1

Unknownforces modems are also in my signature

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Goat1378:
I alway make my back ups on my sd card so if I were you of you dont have one buy one. They come in very handy.

And keeping a stock rom on your sd card is a great idea if you save to your phone get a file manager app I use fx file manager. But most custom recoveries save to sd card.

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] dewrust:
Did you turn auto update off in the play store.. they maybe updating the blacked one out

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] barelynotlegal:
just curious, i rooted my sprint SPH-L720 device while on 4.2 and used QBking77 root method via odin and installed TWRP revovery. i have flashed a few custom roms since then, then i read about a knox counter. is it in the 4.3 update only or have i tripped the counter. went into download mode and the only thin i see csb-oem_config_lsb : 0X30 and write protection: enable

i have only used TWRP, SAC cutom ROM 4.3, TRI force MK 5.2,. im going to guess that 0X30 is the 3 times i flashed it?

thanX in advance

so i searched a bit and saw this. post #6101

http://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/samsung-user-group-136/galaxy-s4-4-9inch-smartphone-4116985-407.html

https://www.dropbox.com/s/p8q7ou1cn8m0d47/Capture.PNG

as close as i could find but

"If the firmware is not Knox warranty enabled, you will see this"

aka voided right?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] dewrust:
Did you take the OTA 4.3(mja) update?

If you rooted on 4.2.2 (mf9) and installed roms your baseband and bootloader should still be mf9.. If you want to upgrade your baseband and leave the bootloader check my signature.... knox is in the mja and mk2 bootloader

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] barelynotlegal:
no ota for me,learned with the photon lol

what would upgrading the baseband do? so i shouldntt be worried about triggering the knox as long as i dont accept the ota, or change boot loader right?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] dewrust:
If you go into about phone and see your baseband is mf9 still you most likely have MF9 bootloader and do not have to worry about knox... baseband is firmware for your antenna.. I have gotten better reception by upgrading just baseband

Read the threads info

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] mister.tech-e:
You don't have the knox bootloader; that is, your device has 4.2.x (pre MJA), the knox-free bootloader. The 0x30 has nothing to do with triggering the warranty. The knox boot-loader is included in an S4 upgraded to MJA or newer firmware. The only way not to trip the knox warranty flag is not to root it. I suggest not updating via OTA, but getting the updates from here on the XDA forums.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Triumph:
I accidentally dropped my S4. Screen (spidered) cracked and digitizer doesn't turn on anymore.

So I sent it in for repair to Samsung. Part of the fixing process is they said they would default out the phone.

I'm wondering, since I was on a Pre-Knox bootloader, but had MJA on the phone currently. Has anyone else had to send their phone in for repair and what did it come back with? Did Sammy upgrade the phone completely including the bootloader? or may I have lucked out and had Sammy just default my phone, but leave the bootloader alone?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] leonleonleon:
So here goes my tries on unlocking my MK2 Android 4.3 Sprint S4 and i made it.

I had the phone on MK2 version and i thought i couldnt do anything, but i was wrong.

I downgraded to MJA version by flashing this via ODIN 307 Download MJA here

then i folowed the Andr3s methos that is writen here

after that i folowed the TS's continue guide and everything went perfect.

About the MSL Code any method does not work with any app or the terminal in the MJA version. Just download this file to your phone, install it and you will get your code easily.

Thanks everyone for the guides.

But now i have another problem and questions. so if anyone knows please help.

1) I am still on MJA version and unlocked the phone, i am from greece and we gave GSM/CDMA but in the phone setting there is no option that they are together, there is LTE/CDMA and GSM seperately and the phone works only with GSM option without giving any data.

Is there any solution to make the network GSM/CDMA? and what about the NO data problem>

2) Now that the phone is unlocked, can i make the MK2 OTA update and not to loose the unlock?

3) Can i flash any other Custom Rom ? and Is there any Solid Stable ROM (that hase none problems) and the careers are GSM/CDMA?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Sphansek:
Need help with the dialer crashing - 4.4.2

Hello - another noob here.I have rooted my S4 - am on Kitkat 4.4.2 - baseband version - MK2

Kernel version is - 3.4.0 Cyanogemod and using the Carbon 4.4.2 rom.

I have tried the method suggested in the forums to fix the dialer from crashing - the one using Heimdall.

But still my dialer crashes every time i try to make a call. I have tried google search but have not been able to fix this issue :confused:.

I have tried everything and feel the only option is to revert back to 4.3 as of now.

Any thoughts/inputs/ advice on how to fix this issue - or what approach folks who are on 4.4.2 adopted would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.:good:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] dewrust:
[MENTION=3038000]Sphansek[/MENTION]

you should post this question in the kitkat 4.4.2 thread to get a more fitting response

seems like a porting issue but i could be wrong but you have a lot of custom written code going on
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Sphansek:
Thanks

Thanks for the info. Let me go through the links and try to figure out, and post in the kitkat 4.4.2 section as well.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] leonleonleon:
If anyone can please answer my questions in post #771. i am waiting for the answers to continue the phone.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] dewrust:
If your rooted you can not just take an ota. You can upgrade your firmware manually( check my signature)

As for flashing custom roms there are a lot of great developers that are here to make roms that are stable and packed with treats... look around try a few out and make a personal decision.. recommend a nanoid backup always just in case. ..

FYI ASKING FOR A BEST ROM IS A NO NO

As for unlocking baseband outside the usa to work together i have no idea. Maybe there is a custom rom that gives that option.. I never had to look into it

And please relax and wait for answers

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] leonleonleon:
ok i will try roms, but before i do that i must be sure that the unlocking is not removing whyle flashing custom rom. i have already unlocked it but i am not sure if i flash another baseband or rom will remove my unlock, that is what i must know first.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] dewrust:
That would be a question for the rom thread for it might be different on each one

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] barelynotlegal:
Was wondering if there was a way to apply a certain keyboard like the note 3 (in sacs 4.3 rom)into my current rom or a rooted stock rom.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] dewrust:
Just a matter of porting it to your device.

I found a thread kicking in here somewhere with chest full of keyboards for the s4.. I'm not sure the note 3 keyboard was on it

I'm on my mobile or I would dig it up for you

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Salil999:
Did this problem happen before the flash too? Also, did you try to go back to stock kernel?

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] riceeeeeeeeee:
Thanks, Will try that tmr ^^ I'll let ya know how it goes.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] cruise350:
Just to be sure, you are using the charger that came with the phone right. Any after market charger will not perform as well. When I would use my charger from my Evo LTE, it would take twice as long to charge than with my Samsung charger.

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] riceeeeeeeeee:
Worked out good, Thank you!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] rdfelix28:
Okay do I recently flashed the liquid smooth on my s4 but lately it's been running all glitchy and the touch screen doesn't respond. Even when I restore my nandroid backup to the stock I had before it's still glitches fires anyone know why it's really frustrating please help
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Salil999:
Did the problem happen before the flash too?

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] HPferoxCraft:
Can I also wipe Internal Storage when Flashing a Rom. I've been flashing without ticking that option and everything is fine but if I have a fresh nandroid backup and the Rom on an SD card is it safe? and do I just flash through Twrp like usual?

Is the internal storage backed up on the nandroid also?

All my pics, songs, notes are on ExtSd.

Or should I just delete app data manually.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Salil999:
If you have it backed up to an external sd card, then you can do that if you want too. If you're still feeling uneasy, just take out the sd card :P

I've never used nandroid (bad, I know), I always back up with cwm on my external sd card. If you have a twrp backup on your sd card, then you should be fine.

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] cruise350:
If you are backing up your phone using cwm then you are creating a nandroid backup of your phone.

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] HPferoxCraft:
So it won't wipe off my recovery program right? I guess that's my biggest fear. After a wipe and before a Rom my pc won't detect my phone so I don't want to lose access to the recovery program, any idea how to get the pc to detect the phone in a wiped state?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Salil999:
You'll never lose your recovery program. Just make sure you have a backup with twrp or nandroid. If all goes downhill, you can always restore with the pc :P

As for the restore state, I've heard you can mount it while it's in twrp or cwm, but I've personally never done this. You might have to search around a bit more, but I'm pretty sure it's in advanced settings when you load up twrp.

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] rdfelix28:
Yes I think it was the install that was the culprit thank you
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] kxhaz:
So this may be a stupid question so I will ask. I just switched from Verizon to Sprint mainly I wanted to upgrade my phone and still have unlimited data, plus where my son is going to college in three weeks does not have Verizon data coverage, but does have Sprint. Anyway do different ROMs help signal strength?

I am thinking that there would be no difference as the radio should be what would make the difference. I am rooted and have made some mods, but really like some of the stock features of the S4, this is the reason I have not put a custom ROM on the phone yet. If it would help with data reception I would put a custom ROM on. Our house get great 4G reception up in our bedrooms but in our downstairs family room I have a hard time pulling a good 3G signal.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] cruise350:
The ROM won't help with your reception, you were right in assuming the radio makes the difference. Nothing will help with your downstairs reception except to switch to wifi and use your home internet instead of Sprint. Also, running on wifi will significantly increase your battery life if you are experiencing poor reception downstairs.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] sinnedone:
Hello All

I recently rooted my wifes Sprint S4 for the second time since it came out. Now there is another update the phone keeps telling her about.

I just wanted to know if there were any stock rooted roms that I could flash on her phone to keep it from getting updated and losing root. Every rom I find seems to be heavily modified or cm or aosp based.

Any help would be appricited before her or one of the kids accidentally hit "install update"

Thanks all. :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] baydude:
Can someone post the steps to reset everything back to factory and remove all data that I put in? Including any /folders that apps created during installation. I tried reflashing to a custom ROM but there are still a bunch of folders that I've created from a previous root attempt and app installation.