yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] JamesKinds:
Improve Chrome responsiveness

Try this suggestion from Lifehacker:

http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2013/0...on-android-developer-tools-could-be-at-fault/

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Just seen your post about problem still persisting. I'm still on the latest default kernel. The battery problem surfaced a few days ago, but now does not seem to be present. I'll stick with the current kernel to see if I can isolate the problem and get it to recur.

Thanks for the pointers.

Jk
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] donalgodon:
I don't use Chrome as my default browser, but the point is that literally every browser scrolls worse on GE/TW ROMs than they do in CM.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] JamesKinds:
Quick question - Do you have Adaway installed? The reason I ask is that I've had the current version periodically consume huge CPU cycles (although not consistently). If you do, try and enable "download updates only on wifi". I'm still experimenting to try and nail this issue down, but clearly it does have battery life implications.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Sophos1:
[ROM] Google Edition Android 4.3 | UNTOUCHED | JWR66Y.S003 | VERSION 2.0 (23/...

Interesting, I've been using Adaway on this rom for months and haven't noticed any impact on battery. I'm going to look for the setting you mentioned and see what, if anything, changes.

Edit: so I just checked and I have not had the "auto update" feature enabled.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] starkilling:
Doesn't happen here, although I'm using 2.3. It failed to patch hosts when I updated to 2.7, so I downgraded because I saw no need for an update, it works great as is. I just left it alone since then. You should try an older version, you can get them through F-Droid.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] astuermer:
Yes. But all set to manual.

I am experiencing 30% battery drain also on 4.2.2 GE ROM. Not on stock Sammy ROM.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] supermartin73:
Hey,

I have used every combination of these GE ROMS and kernels with no excess drain whatsoever, I wonder if you have a unrelated software/hardware or flashing issue?

I had 28% yesterday at lunch and decided to test it, I just hit 5% now and I use non stop, including for my alarm (ie on all night)

Currently using the stock 2.0 ROM on the OP
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] dandroid13:
4.3 has a much better power management, I don't know why you guys are having bad battery life... My old GNex makes it through 2 days without use, 4.3 TW also running nice here and when I was using GPe it was great too. :)
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] JamesKinds:
Ad Away 2.3 from f-droid seems to do the trick

Thanks for the tip. I tried 2.6 on F-Droid but same problems appeared. Downgrading to 2.3 seems to have solved the issue.

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Hi,

Are you able to provide a list of installed apps (either txt, html or xml)? If you can perhaps people who are experiencing the battery drain can go through their apps list and see if anything stands out.

This should do the trick, or search for something similar.

Regards,

Jk

PS: You may also want to try the 2.3 version of adaway from f-droid. I have and it seems to solve my battery issues.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] astuermer:
Find it attached.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] JamesKinds:
Wow,

We have almost *nothing* in common. ;)

The only app I also have installed is Google Drive (Drive https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.docs).

Hopefully others without the problem can post any apps in common or apps that are different.

Sorry that I can't be more helpful. I truly expected we would have more apps in common.

One other thing that may be worth trying, is to disable the Xposed framework. I've read reports of other "strange" behaviours that did not occur when xposed was disabled/uninstalled.

Try that and let us know what you discover.

Regards,

Jk
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] astuermer:
Hi

I've also tried without Xposed - I had the same issues with stock/blank GE Rom and without my above listed apps.

One the one hand I thought it could be a faulty battery - but on the other hand other users have the same problems. So I don't expect a faulty battery... more a bug somewhere in the kernel/Rom.

Don't get me wrong, I really like this Rom and appreciate the work behind it :good::D
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] JamesKinds:
Hi,

Is it possible for you to take a full back-up and reflash the ROM to a totally clean state with no apps installed?

If you can run the phone in this "as new" condition you'll be able to quickly see whether the ROM itself or a conflicting app is to blame.

Reverting AdAway to the 2.3 version (available on f-droid) fixed the battery drain issues I was experiencing.

Sorry that I can't be of more help. :(

Regards,

Jk
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] jtdc:
man, i love untouched stock roms just the way Google wanted. have to get an i9505 for upgrade.

is there any noobie unroot procedure on how after rooting by flashing supersu as mentioned in the OP...

i just need to restore some data using titanium backup while rooted and then unroot back to untouched state. thanks!
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] astuermer:
Hi there :D

I did a full backup/reflash already 2 times. And also tested without any additional apps.

Also I don't think AdAway is the problem in my setup because I disabled every automatic update or so.

I ordered an original S4 battery now via Amazon - just to test if it's the battery or not.

I could pin it down to a 3-4x faster drain between 33% and 18% - then it's normal again.

At the beginning I thought the drain starts at 33% until it's empty.

Btw: Does anybody know how many cells the S4 battery has? Perhaps there's simply one defect cell in mine causing this issue.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] 1c3_5n0w:
Can this ROM use an OTA from Goole directly which means it being converted into a Google edition phone being able to receive updates and such since this is an untouched ROM. If it isn't possible I will go sell my shiny new S4 and get a Note 3 :)
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] overkillZ:
no you cant... and wait a month and buy the nexus 5!
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] 1c3_5n0w:
I will buy the Nexus 5 if it is satisfactory but I really want the removable battery capability of the Note 3 so that I can easily swap it out when the battery degrades. But thanks for your suggestion. Following the current leaks, the Nexus 5 doesn't have a removable battery cover
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] jtdc:
no nexus has removable battery and mem card slot. so the closest nexus that has it would be this S4 GPE. The HTC One GPE has none of those as well.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] 19SkOrPiOn86:
Edit: wrong thread, sorry.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] 1c3_5n0w:
1. I didn't ask for any memory expansion

2. the Galaxy Nexus has a removable battery.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] JamesKinds:
Good luck with the new battery. Please let us know what your results are.

If all else fails, can you not take your phone back for a swap-out? Depending where you are, it should still be under warranty.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Brotuck:
Anybody else having issues with the screen not coming back after a (long) phonecall ?

The screen just stays black. Vibrates twice and reboots.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] 19SkOrPiOn86:
No issue here after a long phone call.

If it vibrates twice I suppose something is crashing and maybe it could be a system application.

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[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] freeman_g:
Do we have any opportunity to use EXT4-formatted card with the faux kernel? I see that the phone has EXT4-formatted internal partitions but the SD card is not working. Probably there should be some modules...
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] supermartin73:
See this?:

http://bgr.com/2013/10/16/galaxy-s4-battery-problems/
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Glotttis:
yes we see, but what does that have to do with this rom?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] supermartin73:
Nothing at all, maybe people are complaining about battery drain issues because of bad batteries
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] xda23:
Is this rom still being developed. Thanks in advance. ..
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] MaKTaiL:
It is the same hardware but they use different bootloaders and modems to work. In order to fully transform it into a Google Edition phone you would have to flash both of these into our i9505 which is not possible. The phone doesn't accept another bootloader other than the one meant for it. And flashing the modem could cause the radio to stop working since they use different LTE frequencies. I hope I explained this right so you can understand it. ;)

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[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] daniel84cs:
Thank you for your work, I love your rom.

It 's simple clean ODEX, just what I was looking for.

Only problem of rom GE is the battery life which is less than the stock.

Thanks again for your work.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] DocSnyd3r:
Ok I see.

Only chance would be if someone could unlock the bootloader then?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] MaKTaiL:
You are welcome. :)

I'm uploading Version 3.0 now with exFAT support.

If you don't use it there is no need to update. ;)

Regarding battery, I find it to be really good if I disable LTE. Otherwise the battery drains like crazy.

Exactly. :good:
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Little Bigboy:
Will this work on att s4?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Methisfaction:
I have Wifi Problems with this Rom...

Sometimes it breaks up, and sometimes very low Download Rate...400kbsp

i have a 8MBt/s Connection @ Home and tried with other phones.

its just for me on this rom.

any Fix for that?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] MaKTaiL:
I don't know. I made it to work on i9505. If the AT&T version uses the same partition mount points it should work.

But I'm not sure so it is better not to flash it for now. ;)
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] MaKTaiL:
My Wifi is perfeclty fine here. Try going to Wifi Settings -> Advanced and disable Wifi Optimization.

This is a new feature on Android 4.3 that optimizes battery drain when Wifi is on.

Maybe that's what is causing your problems. Try it and let us know. ;)
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Methisfaction:
already tried it...i got ups and downs in the connection.

the Speedtest.net skala looks like icebergs :D
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] MaKTaiL:
This SpeedTest app is really crap on Android. It never shows the correct speed.

There is one app we use here in Brazil that works great for testing the speed, you can try it if you want:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=br.ceptro.simet.client.android&hl=pt_BR
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] MaKTaiL:
Version 3.0 Released!

Changelog on first post. Enjoy :)

Remember to flash SuperSU again to regain root.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] slg60:
Service mode option and HD Voice activating working quiet well with your rom. Thats exactly what I wanted to have. STOCK!

Have had one issue, but only one tima while downloadings some apps in Play store. Something lice com.xxxxxx.process closed, after that force close of market. Never experienced again, but I'll keep eyes open! Very good work!

By the way, is it woth it to flash 3.0 when I don't need extfat?

Are there other changes in kernel?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] salamt:
No
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] MaKTaiL:
Nice to know everything worked out for you. :)

As I said in another post there is no need to update if you don't use exFAT.

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[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] slg60:
I've read your post, but could have been that there are other changes from faux in there which improves something else...!?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] MaKTaiL:
As far as I know there is nothing new except for the exFAT support.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] flaviog7:
Unfortunately same problem for me...:crying:
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] flaviog7:
I am also experiencing those 2 bugs:

1) in the AOSP browser, when you hit the menu key, where there is supposed to be "Find in page" it says "Maximum Face Unlock Attention"

The function still works, but it's kinda odd that it has that glitch.

2) with the stock keyboard, I can't change the volume of the keypress in the keyboard advanced menu, I could change it to 0 or all the way to 100 and it will still sound the same.

It seems that those 2 bugs are present in other 4.3 roms too.

Anyway thanks for your work!!:good:
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] slg60:
Have you tried to deactivate the new WLan Optimization setting in WLan Settings menu?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] flaviog7:
Yes, unfortunately without success:(
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] starkilling:
Yes. By Google. We should get 4.4 soon after its release.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] mcnob:
I need to roll back to unrooted stock 4.2.2 from this ROM as I'm selling my phone thanks to a free upgrade. Is it safe to do this or will that lead to problems?

Thanks I'm advance.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] tango280581:
Yea that'll be fine mate
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] MaKTaiL:
Wipe data from recovery first before you flash stock through Odin. ;)
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] rdbhalla:
I must admit, it was pure boredom which made me jump to CM nightlies and even a week on TouchWiz, but I am back to this again.

I could be mistaken, but how is everyone's battery life compared to CM or TouchWiz? In my experience, it's comparable to TouchWiz but bit lesser then CM. I clocked 5 hours display time on CM, but hardly clock 4 on this.

Again, I could be dreaming :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] starkilling:
Exactly the same battery life. I struggle to get 4h screentime lately.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] rdbhalla:
4.4 Yay!

Anticipation for 4.4 is building up... Yay !!!
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] MaKTaiL:
I hope GE 4.4 doesn't have any force close issues that require modified kernel this time.

:)
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Ausboy 2011:
Hopefully its pushed sooner than later :)

Sent from my dominationed S4
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] RobHands:
Quick question, does HD-Voice work on your phone? Mine seems only to be working when on stock firmware
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] gnlcp:
Is this post definitly down?

This rom is really amazing.. Probably I expected more for the battery life which is poor for me (this depends on my hard usage)

I really wish to have a new version of this rom with Android 4.4.

I read posts ago that is it's coming soon. Do you all guys think is possible? Even simply "updating" with the classic double wipe (cache and dalvik) instead of total wipe?

Thank u all.. Hope to try the new 4.4 soon
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] dublinz:
What do you mean by down ?Thread is alive and kicking :) As you noticed Op cook for us ONLY pure Google rom, therefore thread heats up as soon as Google issue update .... So lets wait and see :)
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] 10neke:
Hi Dubz, nice to see you here.............grtz from Amsterdam Also on the S4? :laugh:
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] dublinz:
:) I follow you silently :) Yeah S4 and i am happy camper, no more HTC in my house..... Mind yourself my friend :)
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] gnlcp:
Yes, I'll be anxiously waiting for.. I'm sorry for the "down".. My English is not perfect but what I meant was that there were nomore feeds or news about the new upcoming 4.4..

However I'm experiencing a little problem with this rom after about months of usage. I have almost 600mb free on my memory but most of the time I'm not able to run some applications (such as gmusic, camera or even Facebook) cause it gives me memory full.. Moreover I started having many gapps crashing.. How do I perform a fix permission? Via recovery it seems not possible..

Thank u...
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] :
Can not wait!!!!!!!!!!!!:silly::silly::silly::silly:
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] maysider:
google remove permission manager, google doesn't want us protect and brings nothing visible to us.....so 4.4 is useless and a step back for me....not much excited
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] wohenyingyu01:
I think samsung has given up GE rom dev:(
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] dandroid13:
Stop whining and wait!

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[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] RossFixxed:
Using this as my daily ROM for weeks now. It's exceptionally fast and smooth, it made me realise just how bloated TW is. 4.4 will eventually crawl onto the GE phone and no doubt we'll get a ROM for it, just be patient and don't wind up the devs. The OP made a lovely ROM that does exactly what I need and that booted on the first flash. I had 5 other ROMS on my SD card and just deleted them once I used this for an hour. I've been flashing for years now (that sounds like a confession for a weirdo lol) and this is one of very few ROMs I've just known was excatly what I wanted.

Great job OP ,I really appreciate the work! :) Obviously I'm hoping and excited to see similar with Kitkat in due course but with google's endless messing and Apple-esque behaviour of late there will no doubt be hurdles! Look after yourself and to hell with the whiners, the ETA requesters and the nay sayers, they never have anything to contribute themselves anyway!

I software test for a living lately, (I miss dev work) and I generally tend to break things, I've only had issues with the XDA app FCing and that happens on my other devices anyway! :)

My only other niggle is I can't install Plants Vs Zombies 2, but again that's the GAME DEVs issue not the ROM, it's unavailable on the actual GE phone too!

So I have nothing bad to say on this ROM and that's unusual for me, been running weeks, smooth fast, good battery, openGL spot on. IR blaster working once I got the watchon apk. Just lovely!
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] :
android 4.4 kitkat

I9505GUEUBMKG

Samsung opensource post it source.

http://opensource.samsung.com/reception/receptionSub.do?method=search&searchValue=GT-I9505G
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] dandroid13:
It's coming! :D:D:D
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] c_brown93:
Does this mean KK is out?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] starkilling:
This is just the kernel source but it's a start.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Nasty_z:
HTC One is getting the 4.4 update now via OTA

http://www.androidcentral.com/google-play-edition-htc-one-getting-android-44-kitkat-update

Shouldn't be too long now :D
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] dublinz:
http://opensource.samsung.com/reception/receptionSub.do?method=search&searchValue=I9505G_NA_KK
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Nasty_z:
I'm aware of the kernel sources release.. Just waiting impatiently for the OTA and then for Maktail to port it over :D
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] MaKTaiL:
Don't worry guys. I've been away from this thread lately but I'll be back when 4.4 OTA comes. :)

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[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] DJ_Jedi:
Great, i'm waiting for that to change ROM, but i'm wondering if there's a way to flash a recovery without triggering the Knox counter...
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Ausboy 2011:
http://www.sammobile.com/2013/11/26/galaxy-s4-google-play-edition-gets-android-4-4-kitkat/

:D
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] maysider:
It's here! :)

https://plus.google.com/104629412415657030658/posts/L1kmDwTi2rG
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] MattBooth:
Will be waiting for this myself :)
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] :
4.4 OTA link:http://android.clients.google.com/packages/ota/global_samsung_i9505g/b73a33aff517f5270fc192d1a49610c19d209163.SS-I9505GUEUBMH5-to-UCMKG_Update_FWD_user.zip

I9505GUEUCMKG
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] MaKTaiL:
Waiting for system dump :)

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[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] nielsscholte:
Waiting for it to be ported to the i9505
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] AdrienC:
+MakTail No more waiting! tá na mão! ;)

KRT16S from JWR66Y - http://android.clients.google.com/p...59a9.SS-I9505GUEUBMH1-to-UBMH5_Update_FWD.zip
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] MattBooth:
That's not a system dump...
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] MaKTaiL:
I can't do anything with OTA. I need a system dump to port this. :/

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[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Toss3:
Trying to get the OTA to install on your untouched version (can see the boot animation, but it crashes). Not sure if we need a patched kernel (with right sbl1, sbl2, sbl3 associations etc.).
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] wohenyingyu01:
That's because the OTA includes the baseband, which is not acceptable for Boot-loader. We could modify it and let it be compatible with this rom. But I'm not capable of this:crying:
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Toss3:
Just got it to boot. :good: 4.4 GE on i9505 is a success. Uploading the patched OTA now. And system dump after that.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] dandroid13:
And what about this? http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=47860538&postcount=3727

:(
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Toss3:
System dump: DOWNLOAD
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Ght10:
Any chance of a link to your patched OTA:o if so can it be flashed by CWM?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Toss3:
Already posted in the i9505g sticky, and yes it can, as long as you're running the pure 4.3 GE rom. :good:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=47861012&postcount=126
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] MattBooth:
May be able to upload a copy of this, since there's no .img and extracting to do. If it installs ok on my device, I will do. All credit goes to the Toss3 and MaKTaiL.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Nasty_z:
[MENTION=980049]Toss3[/MENTION] you tried opening the security option in settings? Gives me fc. Kinda annoying as I can't seem to change the unknown sources option and verify apps option. Also, mobile network isn't available for me when I first boot the ROM. Have to manually search and select a network to make it work. Not a huge bug.

Everything else works fine. Tried Wi-Fi, calling, music playback, camera, Bluetooth. I mean it all works :D
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Toss3:
Security causing a fc of settings is a kernel issue and won't be fixed until someone posts a patched kernel. :/ My mobile network worked without a hitch. :)
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] MattBooth:
Yeah my mobile network works ok. though, it says 3G, not H or H+ any more. I'm getting 2k-2.5k LESS on quadrant with this kernel.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] giospecial:
Screenshot please
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] androabot:
[MENTION=980049]Toss3[/MENTION] Everything works fine for me too. only fail the security option in settings

Sent from my S4 using KitKat & Tapatalk :good:
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Glotttis:
so we need patched kernel again, damnit samsung :mad:
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Nasty_z:
Hmm. That's weird I'm losing mobile network signals from time to time.. It just keeps losing signals after some time and then says that the network is not found. Then I have to manually select it again. Not sure what's causing this. I don't have am LTE network. Just 3G.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] MattBooth:
I only have 3G, not having this issue.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] RK:
Which kernel are you using?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] MaKTaiL:
Guys. I am at work right now. I'll be back in a couple of hours then I'll start making it. ;)

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