[Galaxy S 4 i9505G Android Development] occupational_hazard:
Below is the text from the platform.xml that is on my phone after I updated. There shouldn't be any need to flash on 4.4. But please let me know if I am wrong. I also can make the original 4.3 platform.xml file to flash so you can update through recovery of that is the issue

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<!-- Copyright (C) 2008 The Android Open Source Project

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");

you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.

You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software

distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,

WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.

See the License for the specific language governing permissions and

limitations under the License.

-->

<!-- This file is used to define the mappings between lower-level system

user and group IDs and the higher-level permission names managed

by the platform.

Be VERY careful when editing this file! Mistakes made here can open

big security holes.

-->

<permissions>

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<!-- The following tags are associating low-level group IDs with

permission names. By specifying such a mapping, you are saying

that any application process granted the given permission will

also be running with the given group ID attached to its process,

so it can perform any filesystem (read, write, execute) operations

allowed for that group. -->

<permission name="android.permission.BLUETOOTH_ADMIN" >

<group gid="net_bt_admin" />

</permission>

<permission name="android.permission.BLUETOOTH" >

<group gid="net_bt" />

</permission>

<permission name="android.permission.BLUETOOTH_STACK" >

<group gid="net_bt_stack" />

</permission>

<permission name="android.permission.NET_TUNNELING" >

<group gid="vpn" />

</permission>

<permission name="android.permission.INTERNET" >

<group gid="inet" />

</permission>

<permission name="android.permission.READ_LOGS" >

<group gid="log" />

</permission>

<permission name="android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" >

<group gid="sdcard_r" />

</permission>

<permission name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" >

<group gid="sdcard_r" />

<group gid="sdcard_rw" />

</permission>

<permission name="android.permission.ACCESS_ALL_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" >

<group gid="sdcard_r" />

<group gid="sdcard_rw" />

<group gid="sdcard_all" />

</permission>

<permission name="android.permission.WRITE_MEDIA_STORAGE" >

<group gid="media_rw" />

</permission>

<permission name="android.permission.ACCESS_MTP" >

<group gid="mtp" />

</permission>

<permission name="android.permission.NET_ADMIN" >

<group gid="net_admin" />

</permission>

<!-- The group that /cache belongs to, linked to the permission

set on the applications that can access /cache -->

<permission name="android.permission.ACCESS_CACHE_FILESYSTEM" >

<group gid="cache" />

</permission>

<!-- RW permissions to any system resources owned by group 'diag'.

This is for carrier and manufacture diagnostics tools that must be

installable from the framework. Be careful. -->

<permission name="android.permission.DIAGNOSTIC" >

<group gid="input" />

<group gid="diag" />

</permission>

<!-- Group that can read detailed network usage statistics -->

<permission name="android.permission.READ_NETWORK_USAGE_HISTORY">

<group gid="net_bw_stats" />

</permission>

<!-- Group that can modify how network statistics are accounted -->

<permission name="android.permission.MODIFY_NETWORK_ACCOUNTING">

<group gid="net_bw_acct" />

</permission>

<permission name="android.permission.LOOP_RADIO" >

<group gid="loop_radio" />

</permission>

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<!-- The following tags are assigning high-level permissions to specific

user IDs. These are used to allow specific core system users to

perform the given operations with the higher-level framework. For

example, we give a wide variety of permissions to the shell user

since that is the user the adb shell runs under and developers and

others should have a fairly open environment in which to

interact with the system. -->

<assign-permission name="android.permission.MODIFY_AUDIO_SETTINGS" uid="media" />

<assign-permission name="android.permission.ACCESS_SURFACE_FLINGER" uid="media" />

<assign-permission name="android.permission.WAKE_LOCK" uid="media" />

<assign-permission name="android.permission.UPDATE_DEVICE_STATS" uid="media" />

<assign-permission name="android.permission.UPDATE_APP_OPS_STATS" uid="media" />

<assign-permission name="android.permission.ACCESS_SURFACE_FLINGER" uid="graphics" />

<!-- This is a list of all the libraries available for application

code to link against. -->

<library name="android.test.runner"

file="/system/framework/android.test.runner.jar" />

<library name="javax.obex"

file="/system/framework/javax.obex.jar"/>

</permissions>