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[Galaxy S 4 Active Original Android Development] marcelser:
Yes I have a GT-I9295 intl version

Yes I'm absolutely sure, I have a GT-I9295 intl' version as I don't live in US and dont' have an AT&T phone. I'm also sure because I can flash CWM 1.2 through odin and then install every custom rom like CM 10.2 or the one from darkman without having to use safestrap.

As fabiotto said, I have no problem flashing recovery 1.2 through odin, but 6.0.4.5 with the fixed md5 sum from the zip file gives me a black screen.

I wonder if the md5 mismatch does not come from renaming the file but from file corruption. Or does it have something to do with the fact that I don't have CM 10.2 installed yet. Does the recovery use some resources or files (maybe exfat driver) from the existing partitions which are not present on other custom/stock roms?

Can anyone with working recovery maybe test if the md5 fixed zip file is somehow broken? If so, does anyone have a working version? Cause something is surely not ok with this recovery. As soon as I go back to CWM 1.2 everything works fine.
[Galaxy S 4 Active Original Android Development] ohwarumbloss:
fabbiotto just confirmed that this http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=48662082

is working for him, maybe you want to try?

Greetings

Thomas
[Galaxy S 4 Active Original Android Development] fabbiotto:
yes ok ok thanks
[Galaxy S 4 Active Original Android Development] spegelius:
Nice :). Yeah i think that starting from beginning after doing changes mid-build needs make clean or starting from the beginning.

About the recover: i renamed the file to recovery.tar.md5 and now md5 checksum is correct, but my phone seem to have gone into somekind of bad state as Odin flash fails with Complete(Write) operation failed. :/ This happened after i tried the SlimRom i built and then restored lates CM backup. The funny thing is that recovery still work and phone works, so i wonder wtf is going on. An no, i haven't had black screen problem, but apparently there's something wrong with the flash somehow. Bummer.

But if ohwarumbloss's build has the recovery.img in the CWM package, that's great. I was wondering how to make CWM flash of the recovery :).

Maybe i'll get my recovery flash fixed with that.
[Galaxy S 4 Active Original Android Development] ohwarumbloss:
Lost the PC again, family got mad today ;)

What I did, I took LeJay's zip from here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=44174989

and replaced the recovery.img with mine, that's all.

Hope I got you right?

I have no clue why your first recovery didn't work as it worked fine while included into the CM build.
[Galaxy S 4 Active Original Android Development] spegelius:
Yeah it worked, thanks. Good to know, i had an idea to just copy the recovery to some CWM zip but didn't know if it should on the root of the zip or in the system folder.

Flashing the recovery didn't fix my Odin write error, i'm beginning to suspect that it;s something about my pc... dang Windows and random usb problems. Maybe i'll flash the recovery with adb...

Also tried to restore boot.img to SlimRom: now it goes past the Samsung text, but screen stays grey. it's on, but nothing shows. After a while the phone got really hot, apparently something was using CPU like someone else's money. Took out the battery, booted to recovery and restoring latest backup.
[Galaxy S 4 Active Original Android Development] ohwarumbloss:
Just don't take the risk to damage your device!

When I downloaded the SlimRom straight from their page and replaced the Kernel, it booted normal. Probably there is something wrong in the build but that's far out of range of my knowledge.

One user reported that he uses Slim with my "Patch" and jb camera. Also, another provided a WiFi fix for it already. It's dirty I know but it works.

Today I tried a Google Edition Rom from i9505 Forum, restored the 4.3.1 Kernel and wiped caches. It booted but never started. There are things I just don't understand but I think, it's well as it is. Maybe I'm just a bit lazy ;)

X-mas is close, I don't think I'll get time enough for any activities outside the family but who knows..
[Galaxy S 4 Active Original Android Development] fabbiotto:
sorry but I do not understand I read the post but no wifi things wrong?

wifi works fine for me.
[Galaxy S 4 Active Original Android Development] ohwarumbloss:
No problem, I was talking about this thread : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2566929

Sorry about the confusion ;)

Greetings

Thomas
[Galaxy S 4 Active Original Android Development] fabbiotto:
ok:) edit. but fix the camera can go well for our rom? I just for the slimrom
[Galaxy S 4 Active Original Android Development] snadge:
Does anyone know if LeJay is okay? Development for this device was almost entirely on his shoulders, and now it appears he has gone awol. There's no CM11 build yet, etc. Clockwork is still unofficial. I'm willing to step up and potentially lend a hand, but I don't have the experience and time required to be able to reliably contribute at a level that would give the impression that this device has some support.

LeJay mate, if you're out there, give us a holler. And maybe we can work towards putting CM back on my S4 Active, instead of running the stock rom. :)

Cheers, and Season's Greetings! :laugh:

Dave.
[Galaxy S 4 Active Original Android Development] ohwarumbloss:
I have no idea where he is but I hope he's alright!

This is my last build, https://www.dropbox.com/s/r9x8opoz8w2u6fo/cm-10.2-20131220-UNOFFICIAL-jactiveltexx.zip, use at your own risk.

Known problems:

- 720p and lower recording is crap.

- low sound recording

- more? You tell us

But overall performance is so much better than Sammy..

I didn't sync since 20.12 but will do again soon even tho I don't think that will fix our problems..
[Galaxy S 4 Active Original Android Development] fabbiotto:
Hello what are the differences between the cm-10.2-20131212-UNOFFICIAL-jactiveltexx cm-10.2-20131220-UNOFFICIAL-jactiveltexx
[Galaxy S 4 Active Original Android Development] pen²:
The difference is 8 days in cm development ;) [MENTION=3037405]ohwarumbloss[/MENTION] do you know some kind of RSS feed or summary for the changes between nightly checkouts which includes only the changes for our device? (cm gerrit is quite unreadable for me, as it includes all changes for all devices and all cm versions ;)
[Galaxy S 4 Active Original Android Development] ohwarumbloss:
20.12 was my last sync, that's all i can tell you right know

If my plan for today works, I'm going to sync today and I will try to figure out how to include or print out the changes.

But it will get late till I start..

Greetings

Thomas

Edit :

I did a repo sync a few minutes ago but there seem to be no changes. Looking at i9505 download page, it seems there are no further changes to 4.3 branch... So, probably we're at the end of the road for now, as long as there are no 4.4 Kernel/Sources for the i9295.

But, our actual build (4.3.1) is rock-stable as it is. Also, this, provided by spegelius is running very well. It's on my Device for a few hours and

very

ok.

Going to upload cm-10.2-20131227-UNOFFICIAL-jactiveltexx.zip anyways, will post link when it's finished..
[Galaxy S 4 Active Original Android Development] ohwarumbloss:
Well, here is another build, I think there are no changes..

cm-10.2-20131227-UNOFFICIAL-jactiveltexx.zip

Greetings

Thomas
[Galaxy S 4 Active Original Android Development] fabbiotto:
ok I try it.

the build 20131212 has bluetooth not very stable, sometimes the pictures do not synchronize well with the flash, the taskmanager occasionally throws a tantrum.
[Galaxy S 4 Active Original Android Development] rumms:
Thanks dude, this version runs very very smooth. Batterylife is awesome.

The only thing I miss is a better camera-app. Any tips for me?
[Galaxy S 4 Active Original Android Development] ohwarumbloss:
I'm using spegelius' SlimRom right now and downloaded "Focal" from Playstore. The Video preview is crap but the playback is very good. Probably there is something wrong with the cam app in the build? Even 720p playback is ok..

Strange and I have no idea why but it works lol
[Galaxy S 4 Active Original Android Development] ZeroZorro:
Installed the 20121220 today...

After reboot logged in with Google account and apps were restored from Google play...used Titanium to restore app settings and some apps that google did not restore. 45 minutes later I am back in the game and impressed. Good work :thumbup:

Have to test some apps of course but can say that hardware video encoding works in TinyCammonitor and my Foscam camera. Better than on my HP touchpad with CM11.

Let me know if you want more info/tests ;)
[Galaxy S 4 Active Original Android Development] DiaboluZ:
What would the be the most recent compiled version of the recovery posted in this thread please?

The version from Leejay http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=44174989 is OK but seems to using strange paths for the internal backups.

TIA
[Galaxy S 4 Active Original Android Development] ZeroZorro:
I know other people have different experiences but with the 20131220 battery life seems about 50% compared to rooted stock and Google now disabled. Google Now was my battery-killer before so I switched it off. I use the same apps and settings now. Of course I have to use it a little longer to be sure.

Also have to say that I removed some bloatware (Samsung) in the stock ROM and (of course) don't have them in this ROM.

Curious what other people notice about this.

But...this ROM is fast and furious!
[Galaxy S 4 Active Original Android Development] ohwarumbloss:
The last build I used for myself was the 20.12,too. I used it till 23.12 and Battery life was very good. But I usually greenify all apps but Whatsapp and let WiFi turn off when phone's display is off.

GNow is a Battery killer for sure.

But, compared to Sammy Stock unbloated, Battery life is awesome.

Now, still on spegelius' SlimRom, Battery is very good, too. I'm totally happy about now 2 Rom to choose over Sammy, Slim & CM :)
[Galaxy S 4 Active Original Android Development] doom005:
Big thx to LeJay, spegelius, ohwarumbloss! Without them I was not able to compile an actual version of CyanogenMod.

In the first time I ran into the problem that I have used an org samsung android rom when I start the ./extract-files.sh. After I installed the latest CyanogenMod version from ohwarumbloss i can use the command without problems.

What I don’t understand is how LeJay created the new kernel from the original Samsung Active kernel? Does he used a kernel from the S4 or S3 and add only the new active driver sources?

And is there any live remote debbuger for android? With the log files only I don’t know what is needed to change at the camera driver’s sources or other files. I am acutely windows programmer with use of windbg, ollydbg and ida pro. Perhaps there is a great tool like softice for android!?
[Galaxy S 4 Active Original Android Development] ohwarumbloss:
Thanks for your nice words but unfortunately I have no answers to your questions..

We NEED LeJay and spegelius here.
[Galaxy S 4 Active Original Android Development] fkosa:
Try to PM LeJay. He was very helpful.
[Galaxy S 4 Active Original Android Development] spegelius:
I saw a link to samsung s4 active kernel sources in some Android development thread a while ago, can't remember where. I too have been thinking about the kernel and i was going to do some comparing between S4 and S4 Active kernels, but never got around to it.

Also how to debug; i've only used logcat so far, don't know if there's any better way. But maybe if one builds a debug version of the rom and then uses logcat, maybe there's more info? Not that the userdebug build doesn't have prints, there's lots of stuff. And it helped me to make the SlimRom build, so it has ti's uses.

I PM'd LeJay about a month ago, haven't got a reply. Hope he is ok,

Anyways, i have some changes to the kernel, maybe i should push them to github. But as LeJay isn't communicating, i propably should create my own github project for that.

Also i'm going to try make a clean AOSP build now that SlimRom can be built, try KitKat build etc. when i have time from other projects...

And there's newer Samsung rom, MK2 or something, i thought about extracting the needed proprietary libs from it and see how it works.
[Galaxy S 4 Active Original Android Development] Pkt_Lnt:
I pushed the Thanks button, but just know [MENTION=3876105]spegelius[/MENTION] and others that we appreciate your work, and I keep trying all your builds. I keep going back to the GDE build for the S4A, since more things work and I can add what I want with Xposed. An updated AOSP version to 4.3 or 4.4 would be exciting. Thanks for keeping it going.
[Galaxy S 4 Active Original Android Development] DiaboluZ:
Kitkat would be great! :D
[Galaxy S 4 Active Original Android Development] ohwarumbloss:
Mate, I am totally out of touch to this now. The only thing I can offer is testing, reporting and, as soon as I get some, donate some.

I'm even on Stock Sammy again because I needed Camera a lot, lately.

Xposed is giving me some kind of Methadon but it's not the same as AOSP, of course.

I wish you good luck with this and seriously hope LeJay is ok!

To bad Sammy is treating us so bad, the S4a had the same price as the i9505 :(

Greetings

Thomas
[Galaxy S 4 Active Original Android Development] marcelser:
BLE Profile working?

Hi,

I'm thinking about buying a heart-rate monitor belt which requires Bluetooth Low-Energy Profile (BLE) which is part of Android 4.3. As there's no stock or AOSP rom for the S4A with Android I wanted to use Cyanogen as it is Android 4.3.

Does anybody of the CM testers here know if the BLE profile is available on the current CM build (as I don't eve know how to find out which profiles are available on a rom) and maybe even better if it works on the S4A?

Thanks for letting me know
[Galaxy S 4 Active Original Android Development] uvbeenzaned:
S4 att kernel: http://opensource.samsung.com/reception/receptionSub.do?method=search&searchValue=SGH-I537

S4 int kernel: http://opensource.samsung.com/reception/receptionSub.do?method=search&searchValue=GT-I9295

Sent from my Galaxy S4 Active.
[Galaxy S 4 Active Original Android Development] spegelius:
Yeah, this is getting very time consuming, just today spent about 2 hours trying the get adb to work; newer Android versions require the connection to be accepted (a dialog on phones screen), but i didn't have anything showing on the screen because newer Adreno libs wont work... ugh. Had to hack some makefiles to put ro.adb.secure=0 to default.prop. Now adb works right from the get go.

Newer libs aren't working very well, newer Adreno libs fails with msg and nothing on the screen:

W/Adreno200-ES20( 593): <gl2_surface_swap:43>: GL_OUT_OF_MEMORY

W/Adreno200-EGL( 593): <qeglDrvAPI_eglSwapBuffers:3514>: EGL_BAD_ALLOC

Swapping older Adreno libs back works.

Also problems with camera: when i start camera app, the picture fades to black. I can take pics and record videos, but they are black (and 720p is still broken). Switching to opther app and back to camera resets the lightning, until it fades to black again. But in video mode, after switching apps, the light setting stays and recording works. Weird... seems like the auto exposure adjustment or something doesn't find proper setting and just goes all the way to black.

Other than that, haven't done any extensive testing, gonna bring the old camera libs back...
[Galaxy S 4 Active Original Android Development] uvbeenzaned:
I saw you wanted to know where the kernels were. Did you see my post above?

Sent from my Galaxy S4 Active.
[Galaxy S 4 Active Original Android Development] spegelius:
Thanks, saved me the trouble :)
[Galaxy S 4 Active Original Android Development] uvbeenzaned:
You're welcome!

Sent from my Galaxy S4 Active.
[Galaxy S 4 Active Original Android Development] uvbeenzaned:
I have a question for you. I am getting extremely sick of not being able to do anything else with my phone but run GPE. Isn't it possible to make a build of this rom or another build of CM that runs off of the MF3 Kernel for S4 Active ATT that Samsung has provided opensource? I mean it's whole src is lying on the site!
[Galaxy S 4 Active Original Android Development] gilrim:
I'm using it with chipolos, that use bt v4 - that was actually what finally made me install cm. guess you can find more details on the bt specs they use at their website.. it works great with it though :)
[Galaxy S 4 Active Original Android Development] marcelser:
Great news

Hi,

Thank you for sharing this, the website at chipolo says "Bluetooth 4.0 (Bluetooth Low Energy)" and the requirements are "Android devices (running version 4.3 or newer) with Bluetooth 4.0 built in" so if it works with Chipolo it should also work with other BLE devices like heart rate monitors.

I guess the chipolos did not work with stock rom as stock rom is 4.2.2 right?
[Galaxy S 4 Active Original Android Development] spegelius:
It certainly should be possibly, for what i know current CM kernel for S4 Active might very well be based on those MF5 sources. I think i can answer that better when i've had time to do some comparing between that MF5 kernel and LeJay's kernel. Also somparing to S4 kernel will propably shed some light on the matter...
[Galaxy S 4 Active Original Android Development] gilrim:
yep, I couldn't even install the app on the stock rom, as the bt framework used wasn't availiable till 4.3.
[Galaxy S 4 Active Original Android Development] uvbeenzaned:
I very much appreciate your reply! You are the first developer that has actually given some consideration to an idea of mine and I really look forward to seeing what you can find out. Thanks once again!
[Galaxy S 4 Active Original Android Development] harpik:
check out that app:

com.magix.camera_mx

imo that rom is very stable and usable with that camera app. lack of hdr function is not an issue for me.

wonder when they will fix stock camera in that rom.
[Galaxy S 4 Active Original Android Development] ohwarumbloss:
Flashed SlimKat on my Son's Xperia S yesterday, kinda frustrating, of course I'm happy for him but I'm a bit jealous ;)

Also, flashed NeatRom on a friends S3 (4.3) and searched a bit in S3 Forums, wow, they have soooo many options to flash...

Yesterday, for the first time, I tried to use my active in the wet, display was totally unresponsive, unusable.

Even tho I'm pretty happy with this CM, I'm also very upset about this absolute zero process from Sammy.

If I had a time machine, I'd choose S4 or Z1, probably would never marry but hey, what's done... Is done ;)

So, any good news from anyone?

Greetings

Thomas
[Galaxy S 4 Active Original Android Development] spegelius:
Heh, it is bit depressing that you can't just pick a rom to test from multiple options. But then again, last summer when i had HTC One, i noticed that i'm not that interested in swapping roms anymore. So in that respect this phone has been a good one, it made me take the plunge and start doing development myself. There's still tons of stuff to learn, but getting there.

And i'm not yet sure if this is good news, but i got AOSP to build finally :). Haven't tested it, gonna have to figure out how to flash it as google's build system doesn't make CWM zip. But i should be able to flash boot.img, system.img and userdata.img with adb? Good thing i have the HTC still so i won't be without phone if some bricking happens.

And to make AOSP to build... a week of tinkering and swapping libs from Cyanogen repos and updating make files...

Also finally got myself some github repos: https://github.com/spegelius forked from LeJays sources.
[Galaxy S 4 Active Original Android Development] ohwarumbloss:
Now, that

are

good news :)

I did a quick search and found 2 links (and many more by asking Google "how to build zip with boot.img system.img")

here and here, probably this will give you something to start with..

Did you build 4.3 or 4.4 ? By getting AOSP of any Version, we´ll get total freedom with Xposed and GravityBox :)

Send a little Motivation to your PayPal, once again, it´s not what you deserve for all your effort but all i am able to spend, right now..

Greetings and have a nice Sunday!

Thomas

P.S. : I´ve set up an old Laptop with Ubuntu 32bit and will browse your Repo as soon as I get the chance ;)
[Galaxy S 4 Active Original Android Development] spegelius:
Thanks :)

I built 4.3, seemed easier to stay on the same Android version as CM is. Thought this would be easier but as it turns out, AOSP is a bit behind on some things comapred to CM.

I created CWM zip which seems to do most of the needed stuff, but the build doesn't boot. ADB connection cannot find /system/bin/sh, even though it has been flashed and permissions are ok (mounted in recovery). So it seems that /system mount fails? Or something. I'll have to do more digging tonight. I hope i haven't broken the build env somehow as after moving device and other stuff to my own repo, the build process is different, for example qcom caf-libs aren't built anymore (and the build actually succeeds :D). Oh well, reinit for the whole aosp repo might do good anyways...

Oh and there's no roomservice.xml files on github yet, i'll upload them later. There'll be one for CM, one for SlimRom JB4.3 and preliminary AOSP 4.3.
[Galaxy S 4 Active Original Android Development] uvbeenzaned:
So I take this as you working towards a build for the ATT version?

Sent from my Galaxy S4 Active.
[Galaxy S 4 Active Original Android Development] spegelius:
No work done regards to ATT and don't know when that would happen. I have planned to study the kernels at some point, but currently i'm just trying to get to know the Android build system. And the kernel modifications have been only needed fixes, copied from internet so all the stuff will be compare and copypaste ;)

I did do a quick compare between Active intl MF5 kernel, CM kernel and for laughs non-Active CM S4 kernel. Closer to 100 files had changes and as i didn't have much time, i don't know if the differences where small or big. But that tells us the CM kernel != Samsung kernel. Which means ATT CM or AOSP or whaterver build won't happen just like that. But then again, it's the first time i'm tinkering with this stuff so who knows...

If someone wants to help with kernels in general, get Samsung kernels, preferably same version (MF3 and MF3 if possible) and make a diff of the files that differ.
[Galaxy S 4 Active Original Android Development] ohwarumbloss:
Don´t you think it could be possible to extract system.img files and place them into a cm.zip (/system) and put boot.img there, too ? I never looked into system.img but I think the files should be the same as in usual .zip ? This will need some modifications of the updaterscript, maybe, but should work?

I´d like to test, so if you want to, just upload system.img and boot.img somewhere and give me the link so I can try. Or maybe I´m totally wrong with my thoughts?

Amazing fact : Playing Dead Trigger 2 (yes, I play Games sometimes) the phone stays kind of cool compared to stock Sammy, which is getting pretty hot.. Something is really messed up in Sammy Stock lol..

The Nederlands got a new Firmware, XXUBML3, tho I´m in Germany, I´m downloading it now. Sammobile got a new Filehoster which is a pain for unregistered Users..

Greetings and thanks for your time spegelius!

Thomas