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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] BruteSource:
So sorry if any of this is answered already, I have searched and can't seem to find a good answer. First off I came back to Samsung because I've had no problems rooting and using custom roms with the S3 and S2. Is it true that Verizon has not only locked the S4 but locked it so well there is no current method for latest Ota and build to unlock it? I am sad because I decided to get an S4 because I was sure I could easily root, and try some nice clean, optimized, Kitkat roms..

Thanks in advance, appreciate everything everyone in this great community does!

Ps, any app based or any methods for rooting an S4 that does not require a computer? I used a Web based service for my RAZR HD.

Thx again!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] dewrust:
[NOOB FRIENDLY] Sprint Galaxy S4 Questions T

first off please read the title of the thread..

Second I am unaware of Verizon locking the phone down.

third odin is the way to go which requires a pc and is the goto for many if not all on samsung devices.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] BruteSource:
Yeah, can't believe I missed the Sprint in the Title! My bad, maybe some admin will move it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] jmleziva:
I accidentally deleted pictures off of my S4. I'm running 4.4.2

I've tried multiple different programs on windows to restore them, but none of the programs ever recognized/saw my phone. I've gone into the developer options and enabled debugging but I can't figure it out. My phone is not rooted and I don't particularly want to root my phone either. Any ideas?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] XavierBK:
Finally upgraded from my Samsung Nexus S 4G to the Galaxy S 4. I guess I have the 720T, which after some looking around might not work with everything found here... So I'd like some guidance on what ROMs will give me the feel of that Google phone experience. I'd love to strip out all of these nonsense apps I do not want, for sure.

I did like the feel of an MIUI ROM I ran for some time but I remember they were having issues so I couldn't keep running it. Other than that I just ran whatever well-recommended, stable ROM was on the top of the forums at the time.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] dewrust:
download

device info

from the app store and see what your modem and bootloader are. will be different from 720 if you do have a 720T

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say goodbye
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] ralph734c:
I'm definitely new to all of this

I've looked through multiple threads and have seen quite a few different opinions on which ROM to use. I've never rooted an android phone before and of course I have the Samsung Galaxy S4 on Sprint, the SPH-L720T. I've heard it's more difficult to root this phone, but from what I've read on these forums there is plenty of help/advice for that. I'm looking at using either OMNI or TriForce. I've also watched the CF Root video.

Which ROM tends to be better for first time users? Also, what would you recommend for a backup method before I root the phone and pick a ROM? I've heard Titanium Backup is good and wouldn't mind paying for it. Like everyone else, I just need to make sure everything is backed up in case I do something wrong. Thanks in advance for your input!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] wtorres586:
NAE build looking for HOTSPOT

Hey I've searched the Sprint SG4 forums to try to find a way to enable hotspot for my cf rooted sg4 on the NAE build has anyone developed this yet and if so can you point me in the right direction, it would be greatly appreciated!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] dewrust:
have you tried wanam xposed?

idk if it has full support on 4.4 yet

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I am Unaware of any rom that is built for the 720t.. I have heard of one person that flashed a 720 rom and flashed his modem and it worked

can't find where it was but take away that it root able but if you flash any 720 roms make sure you have a full nanoid backup before you do anything
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] cruise350:
Here you go, make sure you follow directions and install with a custom recovery. Also, make sure you download odex if you are still odexed, or deodexed if your running a deodexed rom. http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=50443121
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] gearthrower1:
Music App trouble!

Hello, first time poster so thank you to all those that post on this forum on a regular basis you have been great help when I encounter problems flashing Rom's. I do research before asking questions but I havent seen anything on the forums, which doesn't mean it isn't there, nevertheless, I recently installed SAC23 Rom on my Sprint Galaxy S4. After installing the Rom all was well until I tried to run Spotify, it would just "crash upon loading. I reinstalled it several times still it doesn't work. I tried to install Beats audio and it would load but not download any songs. My question has anyone seen this problem before.

I am running Sac23 Rom latest version with COMADOSE v3.5 and recommended Clockwork mod. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Again a huge thanks to the SAC23 developer and all who helped create a great ROM.

CarpetTrout...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] exeleon:
Flash KT kernel. I experienced the same thing with apps force closing and/or apps not working as they should and figured out that it was because my internal sd was read only with the kernel that come with that ROM. KT fixed EVERYTHING. Just be sure to download the Touch wiz 4.4 version of the kernel and edit the build.prop as noted in the op.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] ralph734c:
That's what I've found so far. Hopefully a ROM comes out for the 720T soon, but I'll root the phone for now at least. The downside, from what I read, to rooting with a 720 ROM seems to be that I'll loose my Sprint Spark capability. Spark won't be done in my area till this fall, but I still would like to have access to that since the average speeds are 40Mbps up to peak speeds of 80Mbps.

You're right, the 720T with Sprint is rootable. One of my friends thought that it wasn't rootable for some reason. I'll definitely do a full nandroid backup and such. Do you, or anyone else, know where to get a SPH-LT20T tar file for 4.4.2? My software version is L720TVPUBNC6. I've searched all over the L720T threads but so far no one seems to have one.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] dewrust:
I believe you have to get it from the samsung website.. super slow dl

Sent from my SPH-L720 using Forum Fiend v1.2.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] CarpetTrout:
Thank you sir!

Thank you sir, I will give that a try and let you all know how that works...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] mvmacd:
Hey, I just got my Sprint GS4.. So I went to install a custom recovery, but all I could find said you had to root first.

Perhaps it was wrong, what I read about Sprint having an unlocked bootloader on GS4?

Anyway so I rooted first, but now I want to be able to flash an .img recovery. Like CWM or TWRP, download the .img, then flash it, so that I can then use that recovery to backup/restore/install new roms. But so far all I've been able to do is get the recovery via ROM Manager. And I really don't like that method, because I cannot even boot into recovery with Power+Home+Up combo. [I tried multiple times, even held it for ~20 seconds, but it just boots up normally in the end] Because what if I mess up my ROM and I can't boot it to get into ROM Manager, to load CWM, so I can restore/wipe my ROM???

I tried searching, but couldn't find any threads about how to install a custom recovery from an .img, then boot into it without using ROM Manager.

Thanks! hope this isn't too noob-ish. I've had a Samsung Fascinate, HTC Rezound, Evo 4g LTE, but somehow it seems there's less straight-forward info on how to do what I mentioned up there for the GS4 Sprint. Or perhaps that's my imagination?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] churchey360:
You can probably download the recovery zip file and when you boot into recovery with ROM manager flash the recovery zip file.

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Download this and use ROM manager to boot into your recovery like you have been doing then flash this file from your downloads folder and reboot your phone and now you should be able to boot into recovery normally.

http://goo.im/devs/philz_touch/CWM_Advanced_Edition/jflte//philz_touch_6.27.2-jflte.zip
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] mvmacd:
thanks for the reply. I just tried this, but it does the same thing.. It said something in the top left corner about recovery, I don't know, it flashed too quickly to read, then it went black. then when I let go of buttons, it proceeds to boot normally.

I'll try again after I get off work tonight. meanwhile any ideas?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Mistertac:
I'd try using using Odin to flash Philz ( cwm ) or whatever other recoveries have an Odin option, not sure if TWRP does or not since in a Philz guy.

I actually had this same issue happen to me on my a Verizon S4. Nothing fixed it..not ROM manager, Goo or Flashify. All did the same thing as what you're describing. It'd say its going into recovery but then just booted normally. I tried many many things and many methods to try and fix it and in the end I ended up having to Odin my stock firmware back on and starting fresh.

So again try Odin method and maybe even Flashify from the Play store before restoring your phone back to stock via Odin

Sent from my SCH-I545 using Xparent Blue Tapatalk 2
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] dewrust:
This man has the right idea.. sometimes for a lack of a better word "glitches" and you have to restore stock if recoveries fails to hold using odin. Ran into this when I tried twrp in 4.2.2 and had to start over from stock
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] mvmacd:
thanks all who replied.. So I tried what someone mentioned, flash a recovery .tar.md5 in odin [I flashed philz cwm touch].. and still, same thing!

So then I tried to read what the small text actually said, and I googled it and found this thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2514728

The text was "recovery is not seandroid enforcing" in all caps & red text. So I did what the guy says to in 2nd post there [Yes, I know it's not the Sprint S4 forum, but it works for me! so I'm not complaining], and let go of Power and Home as soon as the text shows up in the left-top corner, and it works!! :D

yay, now to get on to flashing roms :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] joelshort:
[Q] ROM to start with?

So I just got my hands on a Sprint GS4 and of course the first thing that I want to do is root it and install a custom ROM. But honestly I'm pretty bewildered by all the ROM choices. Can someone point me to a good ROM to start with? I'm looking for something easy to install by flashing a zip, is rather simple in terms of aesthetic design (nothing real flashy or specialized), but that can be customized with icons and skins etc.

The GS4 is currently running android 4.4.2

Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] dewrust:
good is a matter of opinion

there are alot of hard working devs that spend alot of time making their roms and to say one is better then an other would not be right

i suggest you make a nanoid and try a few for yourself and see which one works best for you
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] churchey360:
[MENTION=2901946]joelshort[/MENTION] Negalite ROM is easy to flash. It has an aroma installer to pick stock kernel or custom kernel and which apps you want and will also install a new themed recovery. Also sacs Rom should be getting an update soon that is something that you should definitely check out but it can only be flashed with the latest twrp he has a download in the OP for that. Also there are plenty of aosp ROMs you can use they are highly customizable but can also be really buggy.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] joelshort:
I should clarify; by "good" I don't mean that one is qualitatively better than another. As you say that's a matter of opinion. But are there any that are more "noob friendly" than others? That's really my question. Of course I'll be flashing several to try them out, but where to start...there's so many which is a great thing.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] dewrust:
well if i have to say triforce is a "noob friendly" due to his close to stock builds. but you say that you are already at 4.4.2 and i believe the last build was a MK2 build... not sure if that would work with a NAE bootloader
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] joelshort:
Yes, I'm on NAE. So I should look for ROMs that play nice with NAE?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] exeleon:
Same here, I have to let go of the power button while still holding vol. up and the home button as soon as "recovery booting" appears in the top left or else it starts rebooting again. Frustrating at times but no biggie!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] cruise350:
Just so you know, holding the home button is not necessary. And hasn't been necessary since the s4 was released.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] exeleon:
I actually have read this before but continued to do it out off force of habit.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] dewrust:
Personally I hold volume up.. long press power (release when vibrates).. release vol up when it says booting to recovery

Always works
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] gbean009:
I think I have searched enough to ask this question..... (?)

My L720 with stock rooted 4.2.2 no longer shows any data activity indication (up & down arrows.)

All data connections work, just no activity arrows "light up." (Inactive "unlit" arrows and 3G or 4G symbol do show.)

I have rooted and removed bloat + add hotspot mod. That is about all.

Any ideas anyone?:confused:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] churchey360:
It could be the hotspot mod messing it up.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] jkjambo:
as i know sprint s4's have unlocked bootloader , right?

so why the hell we can't downgrade?:confused:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] churchey360:
You can downgrade everything just not your bootloader tho
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] jkjambo:
So , you mean i can downgrade to official 4.2.2 android?

as i know it's not possible . just don't understand why ... maybe they pushed locked bootloader in kitkat update or what?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] churchey360:
It's not a locked bootloader it's just that knox security won't allow to Downgrade to an older bootloader that's why you can't flash the old .tar files because it includes the old bootloaders but you can use 4.3 or 4.2 touch wiz ROMs
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] jkjambo:
I don't care about touch wiz (i actually hate it) , i just need older official firmwares , because of modems (which can be unlocked) .

So it's possible , to install old official firmware via odin or something like that?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] churchey360:
Yeah you can flash older modems with Odin as long as it doesn't include a bootloader
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] jkjambo:
i flashed older modem . but in odin i'm getting error every time! even it's flashed odin says error .

i wanted to install whole official 4.2.2 rom . but can't find any which can be installed via odin . maybe because of they includes bootloader? but is there any official rom without it?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] churchey360:
Did you flash it in the phone section with odin?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] joelshort:
First off, thanks for this thread. As a noob I'm finding it helpful.

I am running sacs 4.4.2 rom and for the most part it's running great. One strange issue is that dropbox and a few other apps seem to have issues with storage. I've got plenty of storage on both internal and external SD cards, but when I try to open a document saved in dropbox I get a message "Storage full or unavailable." Sorry if this doesn't really belong here, but google search turned up nothing. I've tried the usual things of wiping cache etc to no avail.

Anyone have any thoughts?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] gbean009:
I'm thinking the hotspot mod is unrelated. The problem started long after the mod was done.

I've searched a fair amount and haven't found anything relating to the hotspot mod and the problem I'm seeing.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] JhoonB51:
Install Foldermount from playstore...Open and it will make necessary corrections.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] joelshort:
Thank you SOOOO much for this. Foldermount said that there was a problem with a "module" and it fixed it and now all is well.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] JhoonB51:
Glad it worked out for you.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] ekz13:
Are there any alternatives for roaming aside from roam control or flashing the 00001 prl? reason I ask is I remember some of the older roms (I was on HTC) had this added in the network settings as a third option? Any roms have that for the S4? (can't seem to find anything via search)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] trenth:
Hello,

So i'm trying to use Sac's Custom Rom 4.4.2, I really enjoy it besides the 3Minit that comes installed, and some other things. When I first got my phone I was using Cyanogenmod 11.2. I didn't even have TouchWiz or that stuff on the phone for 5 hours before I flashed it.

Anyway, my battery life on 4.4.2 is terrible. I'm getting 12-14hr of combined usage/standby time before having to recharge. On Cyanogen 11.2 I could get on average 30+ hours before having to recharge.

(This is with Snapdragon Battery Manager installed)

Any idea why my battery life is so much worse on TouchWiz? I've got every gesture turned off, haptic feedback, almost everything except wifi. But even on Cyanogen with wifi turned on I still got 29+ hours before recharge.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] gearthrower1:
S view and SAC rom 4.4.2 Sprint S4

I was wondering if anyone has figured out how to make S view work with the SAC rom. I cant answer any calls, there was one post on this issue but haven't seen much discussion on the development thread.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] cruise350:
From what I've read S-view doesn't work on any S4s that have received the Kit Kat update. It's a Samsung issue and they are supposedly working on a fix.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] CarpetTrout:
Thank You

Well shoot! Thanks for the reply sir....

:D
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] JhoonB51:
[MENTION=2976743]trenth[/MENTION]

You could try this to see if it helps.....

Flash the KT kernel and edit build.prop as noted in his OP or Negamann303's Negalite r46 kernel. I flashed both and they give excellent battery life.

For KT Kernel go here:

Touchwiz Kitkat 4.4 VERSION:

04.17.2014: http://goo.gl/ZAXHGz

To make wifi work when it wont turn on or connect, change this in the build.prop:

ro.securestorage.support=true TO ro.securestorage.support=false

For Neamann303's Negalite Kernel go here:

http://download.negalite.com/
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] TheZander:
This seems like the perfect thread for this question

Hello, I have been updating my phone to KitKat and following tutorials for bypassing the NAE Bootloader with KNOX. I have MK2 so I have KNOX already. Is there any reason why NAE bootloader would be any different? I have not run into any tafus with the bootloader I have now. But all the work around stuff is probably pointless right? Since it all seems to keep MF9.

I have TEP on my Sprint account so warranty has never been an issue I had broken the camera on mine. So I traded it out with a custom rom and custom recovery and everything and they didn't seem to pay any mind.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] dewrust:
If you already have Knox I don't think it is a big deal... I for one am still on (sig)

So I would like to stay out of knox

The work around is very simple since unknownforce has stripped knox out of the firmware and all you have to do is odin the update he has
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] TheZander:
I tried the same approach as you because I didn't know I had KNOX till I realized I had the MK2 bootloader. but sacs I could not get the google camera working nor xposed framework. same thing with Unknownforce Stock_nae_rooted rom.

I was following tutorials for MF9 bootloader work arounds and I don't know if there is any reason people would have for having MK2 bootloader with KNOX opposed to NAE bootloader with KNOX. Is it anymore strict?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] dewrust:
I'm not sure if I understand your question.. sprint does not care if you roam unless it's the majority of the month

What third option are you refering too?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] ekz13:
in order to force roam there used to be an option baked into custom roms (home only, automatic, and Roam only) and that would force you to roam..I can't find any rom that has this.. the only current options that i found were to use roam control or flash a 00001 to enable this.. i was wondering if there was any other options.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] cruise350:
Since you already have the knox bootloader your easiest option is to flash the NAE stock tar file. Then reroot with cf autoroot. That will save you all the hassles the people that piecemeal their installs have.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] ulremember:
Hello to all.

I am on sacs

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Oops.

Hello to all.

I am on sacs rom and is working great.

My issue is this.

While ia streaming with either tunein or iheart, when my screen sleeps the stream is choppy. When I turn the screen on it streams perfectly.

My question is, is there a setting I can change to have my screen off and stream properly?

Thank you in advance.

Blessings
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] dewrust:
Seems like like a kernel issue... what kernel are you on?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] TheZander:
Ok, thanks that was kind of the answer I was hoping for. If there isn't a difference really between the two. Then I guess I should go the easier way as long as KNOX NAE won't screw up the stuff I like to do. HotSpot MOD, Xposed, custum roms, etc.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] ulremember:
KT Kernel.

It is set ktonzservitiveeg (spelled incorrectly) sio scheduler.

Thank you for the reply.

Blessings
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] dewrust:
Have you tried a different profile or bumping up the screen off thottle?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] ulremember:
Thank you. No I have not. I usually do not touch the settings. I am a NOOB. LOL

So you are suggesting to bump up the screen off throttle?

I will try that a lil bit at a time.

Thank you again!

Blessings
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] 302dude:
I have a sprint galaxy s4 with bad meid imei how can I use it on virgin mobile which I already use a cheap phone on or straight talk which I have an activation Sim for. The s4 is already rooted. It sph l720 with mk2