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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] lithiumk:
Thanks for the response. I'll check out that link now.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Wadech:
Okay, so I've managed to root my phone and I have Clockwork recovery installed. As far as ROMs and kernels, what's my best bet for simple and powerful? I'd also like to keep the ability to use my smart cover functions if possible.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] HPferoxCraft:
Before anything make a nandroid backup. Then your free to play around and see which suits you best.

Sent from my SPH-L720
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Wadech:
It has been backed up as well. I was hoping to get some recommendations rather than going in blind.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] HPferoxCraft:
I've been on Triforce rom for quite some time with ktoonsez kernel. I have had zero reboots and no issues at all, great battery, I've had no issues with wifi. This has been the most stable rom for my phone, though I do like some others.

Sent from my SPH-L720
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Spyke5544:
Finally Sim Unlocked my Sprint Galaxy S4!!! now what....

I finally got my Sprint Samsung Galaxy S4 SPH-L720 unlocked today using the S4 Flasher usb application someone built. The problem i am having now is setting it up with Metro Pcs. I searched and searched and am not finding anyone with similar problems, let alone a solution. I have a Metro Pcs Sim card inside right now and it isn't showing the Invalid Sim Card Message. But whenever I try calling the *228 phone number to upgrade my phone using the Metro Pcs automated system the phone begins some sort of activation thing and it says. "i do not have access to call these numbers contact customer service". I think this is Sprint that is trying to activate my account. I do not have an account with Sprint and never have had one. Am i completely on the wrong track here? I just am utterly confused and like i said, cant find any issues like this in search on this website or google.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Jimlarck:
I'd recommend going to your nearest MetroPCS and having them unlock it/take a look at it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] leaderbuilder:
If you want that 'smart cover' thing to work I'm pretty sure you'll at least have to use a Touch Wiz ROM. And I think it must be stock too but, I don't have one (cover thingy) so you mileage may vary.

As for ROMs try a bunch out and see what works for you. CM and AOSP builds are great if you want a more pure Android feel but with some tweaks (depending on the dev). Sac's is a REALLY polished TW ROM.

For recoveries I've had the most success with TWRP 2.5.0.2 but that your call - again try some.

Jump in, read, read try and learn you'll be happy you did.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] klaous:
samsung galaxy s4 root failure

hello guys!! well as a complete noob i have a question for u! i have the samsung galaxy s4 I9505 and tried to root it almost as it was said in the forum! and i say almost cause i accidentaly found the rooting instrucions from another site which are pretty much the same as here (if someone wants to give him the link of the site pm me cause i cannot write it here wet )! the message i got in my pc was this:

[*] Press enter to root your phone...

Press any key to continue . . .[*][*] Waiting for device...

* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *

* daemon started successfully *[*] Device found.[*] Pushing exploit...

and then said root complete! i had the superuser app on my phone but when i opened it it wanted an update! i pressed the update button but said that there is a failure during the instalation of the application! i downloaded a rootchecker and said my phone is not rooted! the phone works fine but is not rooted obviously! what should i do now? reset the phone to its factory settings, root again, uninstall the superuser app? guys plz help i am at a loss!! thx in advance!!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] leaderbuilder:
First make sure you have a Sprint Galaxy S4.

Watch the video on how to root by QbKing77

Then spend some time in the how tos and forums and you will find what you're looking for.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] jmarrale:
I feel like an idiot i use to flash many ROMs with other devices but man i have no luck.. i rooted with an easy odin3 method but no matter what rom i flash i have so many issues . i just tried sacs rom and the damn phone loops i have tried just about all the roms posted for the s4 most just get a stuck splash screen .. or the phone over heats and reboots im ready to smash this phone ... i cant even load revers themes i get the splash screen ... rant over thanks for reading
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] HPferoxCraft:
Are you using twrp 2.5.0.2? Try that, sounds like a recovery issue.

Sent from my SPH-L720
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] revik2:
Is there a way to get or flash a Sprint Galaxy S4 onto an old fair and flexible 500 plan to take the place of a very old HTC Snap. And if so any way to get the information I info I need from the HTC Snap.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] BlackoutSTi:
PacMan Rom Nightlies Not Flashing

I just decided to ditch my CM 10.2 Nightly ROM for PacMan ROM, but am a little disappointed. I wanted to checkout the PAC night lies and before flashing the most recent build (at the time) I checked the log file listed on the downloads page. http://pacman.basketbuild.com/main/jfltespr/nightly/pac_jfltespr-nightly-20130927.log.html I saw the 'build failed' entry and thought maybe it was just a fluke. I waited and grabbed the 9/28 build instead. The log file kept crashing my browser, so I just assumed that the length of the file was proof enough it was not corrupted, and I could download it and install... After a complete reset/wipe, I flashed the ROM (9/28 Nightly) and got errors saying the install failed... This has only happened to me once before, but the file was incomplete due to a lost connection. This file was a complete download.

So, I guess my questions are: are these nightly builds "checked" before being made available for download? Is this a common issue for the gs4 or PAC ROM?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] flacraker:
couple of ?

I was curious as if the S4 was pretty much the same as the S3 as far as programing and readying files.. I'm rooted and am pretty familiar with flashing ROMs.. But for some reason when I try to use all my ringtones and notifications sound I've used for my s3 don't seem to stick or show up when I place them in the phones folders.. But they keep showing up in my freeking music player.. Ugh... Any ideas..

Also does anyone know how to check a mini SD card. I bought a Samsung 64gb SD from eBay. It came sealed in a Samsung package. And shows up on my S4 but every time I try to copy all my stuff from my 32gb SD most of the files are missing and don't show up. I've tried formatting with my phone and with my computer.. Ive tried transfering my data with my phone and with my computer but still know luck.. Could i have gotten a fake sd card or does certain roms not run a 64gb sd card..

Also is there flashable mods out there for the camera shutter off sound and to make the entire phone louder or are they only baked into certain roms at the moment . thanks for any help
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Salil999:
Well remember that nightlies are NOT stable. They are mainly for experimental purposes. I'm not too sure about PacMan ROM specifically, but nightlies don't always work. I would just stick with a ROM you feel comfortable with for now and try and flash a newer build later.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] BlackoutSTi:
Thanks for the reply! That's a good point. I know night lies aren't stable. I will probably wait for a ROC to be released. I would've just inquired about the failed build on the ROM's thread, but this site won't let me. I haven't met the required 10 posts. So do the Deva of these ROMs review the build logs ever? For my own knowledge- what could cause a build to fail for one device, and be successful for another?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Salil999:
To be honest, no one knows (or maybe just I don't know). There are many noobs (and I'm not calling you a noob!) who just want their ROMs quickly running so they post random/weird issues that could have been prevented if they just follow directions. But usually always, following the directions on the original thread leads to success.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Salil999:
Not to rant on you or anything, but are you sure you've read the directions 100%? You can't be the only person in the world who has issues :p

Usually for a custom ROM, you're supposed to wipe completely (cache, dalvik, etc...) and then flash.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] jmarrale:
I figured it out I was using the newest version of TWRP I had to down grade to the 2.5. And yes I followed them to the T ..
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] flacraker:
im curious as i just saw this post with your TWRP is something wrong with the newest version, mine keeps freezing on me or lagging big time and have to pull my battery and restart the phone?

NEVERMIND I SHOULD HAVE SEARCHED AND READ FIRST.. SORRY IM AN IDOT...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] jmarrale:
I was having madd issues flashing any rom on the 2.6. Must just not have agreed with my s4
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] flacraker:
ok heres a dumb question how do i roll back my recovery, im trying and ive just lost the recovery i had... ughh..
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] jmarrale:
Just DL the 2.5 TWRP load it on the sd card or internal storage boot in to recovery flash the file and ur done
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] flacraker:
lol i jacked my recovery and have to put back 2.6 first.. thank you..
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] montey:
phone wont load gapps. sounds stupid but I need help

Hello I am kinda New to rooting and am having a huge issue with getting the gapps to flash over. The rom flashes fine but during start up all the google apps start popping up giving me error error messages and not thing will work. But if I just load the rom everything works great. Just those dam gapps.

And I am trying to run the stable cm 10 rom for my sprint galaxy gs4.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Salil999:
Depending on which Cyanogenmod you're flashing, you can use these gapps. I've used it before and haven't had an issue. I think you might have gotten a bad download.

http://goo.im/gapps
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] montey:
Hey I'll go ahead And try that but I just tried a new rom and the gapps set from goo manger and it loaded up well but once it came on the google keyboard kept throwing up and error and I could type to sign it??? I must be dumb as f$ck or something but I am doing everything I know to do and it just won't load the gapps? Can you give me a cm rom and Capp to try lol
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Salil999:
Well this is the CM page for Sprint GS4: CyanogenMod jfltespr

This is the gapps associated with the latest nightly: 4.3 Andoird Gapps (CM 10.2)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] flacraker:
Anyone have issues with there camera... I loved my s3 stock camera but for some reason this one is just shakey... any ideas... and are there any hacked camera zips out there with no sound....
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] PAPB0007:
I noticed that the stock camera tends to get shaky/blurry when there is less than optimal lighting. I use camera zoom fx and it seems to work well. You don't get all the features but at least it's on focus
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] bounddyy:
Did anyone get the external to internal memory swap to work on s4 sprint with liquid smooth 2.9?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] sscope:
Pretty sure that's just a function of the low-light and high aperature compensation. However, my knowledge of photography is, admittedly, cursory.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] txskeets:
I had the same problem when flashing yesterday. I pulled down the CM rom and gapps from GooManager. What GooManager pulled down was an old version of Gapps. All you need to do is grab the correct Gapps from here - http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Gapps and flash them on to the phone and all will be well.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] phisher177:
Not booting

I have an issue with going from cyanogen mod to a stock rooted rom.

I got the correct rom from GS4root and installed it via CWM after wiping data.

However it just sits at a black screen after showing the Galaxy S4 splash logo.

I can boot into CWM and reinstall cyanogen mod and it works, but I want to just go to a rooted rom now.

Bad download? or did I mess something up somewhere?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Mansevolver:
I recently rooted and ROM'ed my Sprint S4 (Using QBKing's method) and I placed AOKP 4.2.2 Milesstone 2 on it. But before I did all of this, stock TW was in power-saver mode, and I think this may have carried over. (I get 6.5-7k in Quadrant)

What do?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] brandlev:
complete(write) operation failed when flashing modem.bin

Hi everyone,

The device I have is the Sprint Galaxy S4 16Gb.

I was trying to flash back to stock MDL with Odin 3.07 off of a tar that I had used before, but Odin failed at the modem.bin part. I have replicated this multiple times by:

- flashing MDC (error at modem.bin)

- flashing just the modems and still getting an error that fails

I have also tried loading the pit file, used different Odin versions, different cables and different ports.

Obviously, when I boot up into stock my Wifi is not useable, but mobile data seems to be working.

Any ideas on how I can get around this?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] churchey360:
I rooted my phone and i have the stock rom with a custom kernel on it and my question is when 4.3 update comes out can i still get it or do i need to unroot first?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] ROMANTiC KiD:
You need to unroot. And be on stock to get update
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] trubl1:
Whoops, see below.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] trubl1:
Treasures found while trolling XDA

Sacs 7.1 (smoooof and built like that rock off of Gibraltar). Comadose (brilliant!) with most everything Greenified by way of Xposed module.

All things in moderation, including moderation.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] churchey360:
...

---------- Post added at 09:20 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:47 PM ----------

How do you backup your imei and all that info incase something corrupts it?

Flash~a~holic!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] brandlev:
I haven't really had any issues before so my backup has been just doing a NAND backup or going back to stock as a fix for anything that I have done. Unfortunately, I don't have a NAND of stock.

Also, I still can't flash a modem.bin through Odin, but I can flash a custom rom through TWRP (used Slim Bean) and got Wifi and LTE working. 3G is pretty much non-existent (which is why I wanted to do a clean stock install in the first place.)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] churchey360:
When my phone is powered off and on the charger it doesn't show the green battery charging animation it just shows the battery and a frozen loading circle any help?

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And it wont turn on unless i unplug it and turn it on
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] IcerJo:
While I was under Liquid Smooth 4.3 I was browsing through the different menu's and hit lock Sim card by mistake, afterwards my 4G access went away, I then proceeded to try restoring a couple roms in hopes to restore the access. Once I restored my Stock Rom with root access it asked me for the puk code, I was able to obtain my puk code, but now every time i turn on my phone with the touch wiz rom it will ask me to put in my pin for the sim. I tried flashing back to my daily driver and run into the same no 4g signal problem but it gives me 3g. Is there a way to unlock the Sim card back to how it was from the factory so that i can go back to AOSP?

Thanks in advance!

update: the option for sim lock/unlock from the security tab is not available on the touchwiz rom, and on the aosp based rom it asks me for a new pin though i have already set a pin.

2nd Update: I tried installing Cyanogenmod and they show the option to unlock the sim but the problem is the keyboard keeps failing, Will keep trying though!

Final update: Installed Cyanogenmod without gapps and was then able to go in and unlock the sim with any keyboard issues.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] tcurtiss92:
sacs v7.2 sd error

anyone know of any fixes to make sacs new rom read the sd card? it wont read my music or pictures
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] HoodieNinja:
hi everyone,

i am new to modding my phone so sorry if i sound like a newb bwcause i am, i installed the carbon mod onto my phone and everything went good except the swipe function of my keyboard would not work, it would not find my location for weather, and it would not sync my contacts from my gmail account. the big issue is i did not have my google apps so i downloaded the newst gapps from goo manager. now when my phone boots up i just keep getting error messages saying unfortunately setup wizard has stopped. is there anyway i can resolve these issues? or a better rom? the reason i wanted a different rom in the first place was because i cannot stand the white backgrounds of the dialer and messages, plus getting rid of all the bloat is awesome. can anyone help me?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] JoeBear1975:
Factory Mode, but Unrooted

I am having this same problem, but ALL the forums that I've read said that you need to be rooted to fix the problem. WELLLLLLLLLLLL...........I was rooted, but am not now & that's when all of the trouble started. I found a way to get rid of this screen (pull down the drop down menu, long press the "Update Device Info" & select "App Info", once this comes up, press the "Clear Data" button. This will take that horrible yellow screen away until you re boot). I do not know of any other way to get rid of this. Does anybody know what I can do, or have a link that will help explain what to do? I am pretty sure that I have read all the forums that are posted about this, but I may have missed one or something. Please help. I really want to be rooted again, but Odin will not recognize the files that I have dled for rooting. Thanks for any help. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2392632
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] JoeBear1975:
Unrooted, but in safe mode

Just went into DL mode & saw that is says my current binary is custom. Does this make a difference?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] radtranceman:
Was wondering about unlocking the sim. I'm travelling to the UK for 5 weeks very soon and would like to use a UK based sim. I can unlock once their and have the sim in hand. But how do I do this? Sprint absolutely will not help me. They say I have to wait until July!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] G_for_Gators:
Problem solved.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] churchey360:
Put your sd card in another phone and download a rom on your computer and place it on the sd card then put the sd card back in your phone then go into recovery and flash it thats what i just did. pacman roms download fast lol i wiped everything and even deleted my backups when using an aroma installer and didn't have a rom to flash and this worked for me.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] JoeBear1975:
Rooted

I finally got rooted again. I had to delete ALL rooting files (including Odin) & dl them all again. HOWEVER.......I am STILL running in safe mode & have that damn yellow screen popping up when I boot up. Like I said before, I can turn it off by pulling down the "Pull Down" screen, Long Press "Update Device Info", select "App Info" then Clear Data, but I don't know if this will cause long term damage to the phone or anything. Still needing some help with that. I have tried using Terminal Emulator & entering a code, but that hasn't worked either.

Found something that worked with my 9500..This is copied & pasted verbatim...

You have to root your phone and install Terminal Emulator from Google Play.

Open terminal emulator and type as ;

su

rm /efs/FactoryApp/keystr

rm /efs/FactoryApp/factorymode

echo -n ON >> /efs/FactoryApp/keystr

echo -n ON >> /efs/FactoryApp/factorymode

chown 1000.1000 /efs/FactoryApp/keystr

chown 1000.1000 /efs/FactoryApp/factorymode

chmod 0744 /efs/FactoryApp/keystr

chmod 0744 /efs/FactoryApp/factorymode

reboot

You now should not see the that message anymore. Its because of an EFS corruption. ( Thanks to yesilcin*com (sawgent) ) for exact solution.

Here's the link to where I found it, http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=38726329 PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, spread the word about this. This was entirely too hard to find. Thanks. Make sure that you put the link to the post so the person that posted it can get "Thanks".
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] nissan52:
Negalite wiped all data

So I had cynagenmod installed and I wanted to try negalite so I did and I wiped the cache and dalvik cach and went to install the rom and during setup it gives you the option to wipe all data and I did so after set up it booted but it was stuck on the samsung galaxy s4 screen so then I went into recovery and install my old recovery but it wasn't there so I went to flash it to stock rom using odin and after i did that it was still stuck on that screen so I have no idea what to do now. Does anyone have any idea what to do or any suggestions?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] churchey360:
I did the exact same thing i fixed it by just downloading pacman rom on my computer and then put my sd card in another phone and copy and paste it from the computer to the sd card. Then i put the sd card back in my bricked phone and flashed it and it booted up fine.

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I made the same mistake with the negalite aroma installer i didnt like the first setup because i used the 4x5 launcher and there was too much space on the home screen so i went back to aroma to redo it and i chose wipe everything this time and i didnt think it would wipe my downloaded files and the backup i made in my recovery. It sucked i was so mad that i bricked my phone it was the first rom i was flashing too.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] nissan52:
will it work with any rom or just pacman
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] churchey360:
Idk i would use pacman it downloaded really fast. stock based roms takes longer too download. I would just redownload negalite if that's what you want after flashing pacman