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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] gmac1990:
I don't see why it wouldn't. Few things need to happen before it can. As of not this safestrap doesn't work on that base I don't think
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] tommydrum:
Hash is working on a kernel extension thing that lets it hand off the kernel to any kernel (as long as that kernel supports that same extension). Once this comes out, and rom devs like cyanogenmod an MIUI add the extension, you will be good to go.

My guess, it will take another week or two for this to be released... Who knows, maybe the unlock that the Moto X people have been working on will be released before then, then might be soon ported to the Galaxy S Series (depends where the exploit is).
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] kruuth:
This might be a silly question but how do I create slots on my external SD card? I don't see how to do that in SafeStrap.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] jball:
Hashcode is working on all this. Safestrap is still new to are I337.

He is doing a great job here like he has everywhere.read all pages in this thread its in here
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] kruuth:
Thanks. I was reading and didn't see this. You're right, Hashcode is doing awesome. It's nice to see some custom roms on MF3.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] jball:
Getting better all the time
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] sykoj82:
If Hashcode is working on creating virtual slots in the external sd card, Im guessing its recommended having a class 10 or higher? Faster the class, the faster the read/write speed.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] trikar21b:
Out of curiosity, if I were to sell my S4 or needed to send it back for warrantee would I be find to simply boot into the stock ROM and do a factory reset instead of stopping by a best buy?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] Phoneguy589:
Hey hash, great work btw. I am one of those people that breezes through stuff without fully reading (aka stupidity :o) Being that I had aready flashed the recovery on my daughters phone just wanted to let you know the recovery does work but never attempted to install a rom. May or may not be useful to you for those with an Active looking to back up or flash themes and restoring.

Sent from my At&t Galaxy S4
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] azz72:
This might have been mentioned before. I want to delete a few nan droid backups.. is it safe as long as I keep the 1 st one I did or it doesnt matter..
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] mdaudioguy:
I think it's up to you to decide which backup you keep...........................
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] konaman:
If I want to go back to the stock rom, I can flash the stock rom slot correct?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] jball:
If you want to go back to stock you just activate"stock slot"and reboot.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] konaman:
I just tried to create a slot to flash a rom and I don't have enough space to even create one. What can I delete to make space? Everything that I can move is on my sd card already.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] jball:
How many slots do you have created already. Just get rid/delete the ones your not using. I myself use Safestrap like a regular custom recovery till Hashcode comes up with a external method.i keep stock slot untouched and clear slot 1 every time I want to try a different rom.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] DeadlySin9:
I'd recommend doing a superSU uproot after making sure busybox is removed, since factory reset doesn't affect the system. And uninstall safestrap with the terminal commands to be safe.

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Make sure everything is on the external sd card, delete user apps or clear things that take a lot of space, clearing cache might help too
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] rbedell:
I backed up my apps and used titanium to uninstall all user apps and wipe the system apps. Reboot. Maximum clean besides wiping internal memory.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] toxicpaulution:
Anyone have any luck applying this to the MDL :3
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] dkephart:
GAT and SS?

Hashcode,

The OP of the GAT ROM (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2467098) says to check with you before attempting to flash that TW 4.3 with SafeStrap -- so, what do you say? Do you think it would work? Would it blow everything up? Or (as I suspect) simply not boot?

Thanks for all your hard work with this, by the way.

Yrs,

dkephart
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] tommydrum:
So... if one, say, flashed a rom on the stock slot, would it stop safestrap from booting? Does safestrap have a thing when flashing telling it to never touch anything that is needed to boot safestrap? If so.. that would almost make it safer to flash to stock slot, wouldn't it?

I just really want GPlay edition rom, and don't want only 3 gbs of user space... I was just making sure, didn't want to do anything catastrophically bad.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] johnharty3:
I install my rom to system and safestrap works still

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Running shostock 2.3 on system not a rom slot
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] tommydrum:
Awesome... Though, I might just ask if someones tested it with the gplay edition rom, I'd much rather do somewhat AOKP than none at all.

At least your rom works too :D
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] johnharty3:
I have also ran google edition rom on system too worked fine
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] tommydrum:
Do you factory reset you phone before flash? (wipe?) Just trying to know what to avoid if I follow your footsteps.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] johnharty3:
I wiped factory reset and flashed rom and kernel modules
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] guapinoy:
With GPe rom on slot 1 you are not limited to only 3 gb. You still have access to the remaining space.

Do yourself a favor and don't mess with the stock slot.

Just think of the stock slot as your default nandroid backup. I don't get why are so many people eager to write over it, especially without Odin files to restore.

I guess everyone lives near a best buy :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] johnharty3:
If all else fails my local best buy has helped me everytime we are on a first name basis lmao
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] zeyoner:
See if you can get the files from him or at least find out how he's doing it?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] johnharty3:
I will he is real friendly id like to get it too ill ask tonight and report back
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] Galaxy*$4:
Well I am enjoying fox hound 2.0 rom sad thing is I cant get viper audio mod to work I chose the a8 with neon and it doesnt seem to work. I updated it and the app (NOT BUILT IN) kept on crashing

also anybody know if I can get different samsung keyboard themes. Like the one off of deadly vemom but do want to switch to that rom for the keyboard
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] drucquerkellan:
Is it normal to be able to replace stock rom?

Hello, I have installed safe strap and installed the google play edition rom over the stock rom. Not sure if this is normal or if for some reason I got lucky. There is no touchwiz anywhere to be found on my device (which is a good thing ;) ) But still i find it a little wierd...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] cpom1:
umm google play edition doesnt have touchwiz....
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] humblehyper:
He said "over the stock ROM". If that runs good then I'll do the same LOL

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What google edition ROM did you install? And can you post the step by step on how you did it? That's interesting. Thanks.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] mrro82:
You guys are just asking for trouble.

Sent from the other side of the Milky Way with my S4.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] mikeDCMDVA:
How do you check to see if you have encryption enabled?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] mrro82:
Not to sound like too much of a d-bag but if you need to ask you probably shouldn't be messing with something like this.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] mikeDCMDVA:
Dude, I've spent the last year with the iPhone 5. Before that I was working on my own ROM's for my Galaxy Note. I'm rusty. I probably knew more than you at one point.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] mrro82:
Well "dude" it still makes my point that if you can't figure out that simple fact then you shouldn't be messing with your phone but hey whatever.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] Ends:
It's his phone. And please people don't quote the entire OP. Really
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] danjbry:
Settings-security-its the top option.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] mikeDCMDVA:
Thanks. I assumed it was something that is not as simple as an option on the settings. The simple things :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] DeadlySin9:
I had the crashing too, just try reinstalling the app/driver. Also, if it won't process audio, change these lines in your build.prop:

tunnel.decode=false

lpa.use-stagefright=false

I have foxhound 2.0 and it works perfectly.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] jongcruz:
Hi, what I did was a backup of the stock ROM .... then I restored in the second 3gb slot. Then I use the first slot as for my Foxround ROM so I m not limited to the 3gb storage....hope it helps.

Just hopping we have the external SD card for slots in the future....

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The reason why we need to use slot 1 is because there is not much to do with 3gb.......so..... what I did was a backup of the stock ROM .... then I restored in the second 3gb slot. Then I use the first slot as for my Foxround ROM so I m not limited to the 3gb storage....hope it helps.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] CyberManiaK:
Suggestion for Hashcode.. due to a lot of people not reading that don't flash on stock slot. Was wondering if It's possible that if stock slot is selected then wipe and install don't appear until they are on other slot..
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] h3rnand3zz:
I have a 32 GB galaxy s4... Is there any way of upgrading the limit of space for date to more than just 3 gbs..... I would be happy to donate to the work on that upgrade.....

As now I can only hold 3 GB maximum space which is a waist for the whole point of buying a 32gb...

Thank you so much for your work so far. ..
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] CyberManiaK:
Read previous post and you will find out....

But did you know that the whole point of your 32gb S4 is to keep it stock?. You should say thanks that safestrap exist and let you run another rom only in 3gb ! Could be worst... if you can't use safestrap with only 3gb uninstall it and use your stock rom with 32gb and be happy with that.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] Ms. K:
I don't understand the problem. I've a amdl base. I'm lucky to have graviton as my stock rom. I don't touch it. I will be using my 2 gig slot for infamous which is a more complicated ROM for me. But I can safely check it out this way. I can also check out my old backups to delete unneeded ones. Can't ask for more from hash code. This is superb.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] kevinco1:
Wow, great tip, thanks!

One question though...once you have restored the stock to slot 2, do you have to totally wipe out the normal stock ROM in Safetrap in order to recover all that space for slot 1?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] Galaxy*$4:
i guess i could change build prop using rom tool box pro.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] 78Staff:
This reads confusing - are you are installing Foxhound into slot 1, or into the stock rom area, and thus overwriting the stock ATT TouchWiz install? ie, on my install there is the stock rom area, and then there are 4 additional slots available (1-4). Slot 1 is one of the "virtual" slots and constrained to 3gb, just as is slot 2, 3, and 4. The stock rom area is not a "slot"

If you are installing Foxhound into the stock rom area overwriting the MF3 ATT Touchwiz, have you tested restoring the stock rom?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] aka120:
To all the people flashing on the stock rom slot, are you all on a firmware other than MF3? The reason I ask is you must be able to odin back incase you brick, coz us poor saps on MF3 would be taking a trip down BestBuy lane in hopes of recovering.

Just an FYI, Ive soft bricked my MF3 a handfull of times now, but thanks to Hashcode, slot1 softbrick didnt effect stock rom a bit. Now if I was as brave as some of these people flashing on the stock rom slot, I would hace been S.O.L. :p
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] nash2000:
Is it alarming if SS installed on its own? I didn't need to use a file manager to install it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] xerythul:
I cant see why it would be. As long as the install procedes smoothly and it begins to manifest itself on each boot, provided you follow the installation instructions once the apk is open. I see why you might be nervous about it but just watch how its working and that everything is in its correct place and DO NOT FLASH OVER THE STOCK ROM. You should be fine.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] nash2000:
I'm sure its fine, just thought it was odd that I didn't need to install the apk thru a file manager. Either way I have SS in my app drawer, once I learn more on how it works etc I'll fully install it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] drucquerkellan:
Yeah the rom is this one: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2341794

All I did was go into safestrap, hit install, selected the rom, installed it, wiped cache, then reboot. Once I realized I had forgotten to wipe, I went back into safestrap and wiped. Then I rebooted and the splash screen said "Safestrap is disabled" and I hit the back button (continue) and it immediately started booting into google edition and works just fine :good:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] StlGucci:
can someone help me I'm trying to remove the recovery but I am not rooted anymore. do I have to be rooted to remove the recovery? if not how do I remove the recovery without being rooted?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] DeadlySin9:
You have to be rooted. Root and follow the instructions in the safestrap thread to remove it. Additionally, if you're trying to get unroot without the modified custom splash, look at the SuperSU uproot thread because you may have to remove busybox.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] Mr. SirPerson:
Dilemma

I'm at a bit of a dilemma.

The USB port on my previous S4 stopped working due to water getting in to it, so before getting a replacement phone, I backed up everything using SafeStrap "knowing" I'd be able to restore it. Problem is, when I go to restore, nothing shows up in the file manager. No matter what I do, I can't get anything to show up.

Is there something I could be missing?

UPDATE: I went ahead and made a backup of my system, and that shows up. Is it because I'm on a different phone?

SECOND UPDATE: Moved my old backup to the new folder with the new backup I made to test things out. It showed up and booted beautifully.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] 78Staff:
Just updated to a 32gb model w/MDL, so looking forward to this version. Safestrap worked awesome for the short time I was on MDL :good: Shoot me a pm when/if you need any testing...

'78
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] intika:
i am preparing a stock deodexed rom based on MF3 rom

only for our f**** locked MF3 S4

this rom include Xposed + Native SafeStrap Recovery + floating window + dual window to all apks + and many other changes...

this rom will replace the main system (yes directly flushable under safestrap, on main slot)

note : kernel/bootloader are not touched.

an alternative for those who want to flash on main slot and 16gb owners

(you will keep retail rom under nandroid backup)

any way will post it soon need some dev porting authorization...

By the way hashcode did it disturb you that i include your apk and the patch on the rom ?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] IgnitedBeast:
Hey all, just checking to make sure, I want to flash this ROM http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2402208 , it will probably fail, but that won mess up my phone because its safestral right? As long as I flash to a ROM slot I should be fine?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] intika:
Yes you are right :) be sure to be on the virtual slot, watch video on youtube before doing it, and be sure to use last safestrap version !
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] jgav71:
That rom will not work. It has a 4.3 base which means our stock kernel is not compatible.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] intika:
did not notice 4.3 base (not a lot of details)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] Galaxy*$4:
i know its been asked before but, i am tempted to use an international TW rom. if you feel like it think you can try flashing over the stock rom, if thats what your saying in your post?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] intika:
Just finished the v1.0 of my rom :) Yeeah ^^

Intika S4 MF3 BASED

ATT&CAN - UCUAMF3 - JB TW 4.2.2 - SafeStrap

INTIKA.MF3.ST.DEODEX.V1.0.ZIP

SPECIALLY FOR LOCKED MF3 DEVICES

NOTE : not a big deal... but it's dedicated to our locked mf3 and include safestrap. the is no kernel on it :) then less risky

it's based on :

- UCUAMF3 JB TW 4.2.2

Features :

- Safestrap Recovery included

- Installable on Stock rom slot, or on virtual slot

- Safestrap Apk v3.6x B09

- Xposed Framwork + Installer

- .. Xposed - Halo Floating Window

- .. Xposed - Application Setting (Per APP DPI - and more)

- .. Xposed - XBlast Tools

- .. Xposed - Wanam

- .. Xposed - Alternate App Picker

- .. Xposed - Cosmetic Sys Scope Normalizer

- Host Adblocking updated

- Wifi Tethering Included

- Call Record MoD Included

- Black Dialler & Contact

- AdAway Added

- SuperUser apk moved to data (for easy update)

- Removed Some System apks

- Build.prop updated & modded (Small MoD - Battery & 3G 4G MoD)

- BusyBox & xbin updated & Full BusyBox included (last stable)

- Native mail replaced by MailDroid

- Native SMS replaced by Go SMS Pro

- Native Launcher replaced by Go Launcher

- DPI Density changed to 420 from 480

- Add Wallpaper apk

- Added Icons Pack

- Added Some Usefull System Apks

- Added Toucher Pro

- Added LBE Security

- Xposed Configuration Updated

- Configured per applcation DPI (System App tune)

All the apk does not have the same DPI

- Floating windows activated

- All application could be added to multview

- Not "official' removed

- 8 quick access icones

- No saifestrap module needed

- Taskbar icon modded.

... many more

it's look like stock, but got some cool feature, a kind of compile for our mf3...

Waiting authorization of other devs... and will post it, think will have an answer for tomorrow.

any way see ya later
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] rayburne:
Just finished the v1.0 of my rom :) Yeeah ^^

Intika S4 MF3 ROM MDOB BASED

ATT&CAN - UCUAMF3 - JB TW 4.2.2 - SafeStrap

INTIKA.MF3.ST.MDOB.DEODEX.V1.0.ZIP

SPECIALLY FOR LOCKED MF3 DEVICES

I thank you for your effort and contribution to the community but I don't understand why you included SS with your ROM?

Do you intend for MF3 users to flash this over their Stock slot?

Since MF3 bootloader is locked down only users on MDB/MDL should be messing with their stock slot.

You only need SS on your Stock slot.

Why would anyone need to install SS to a ROM in a Rom slot?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] jee'sgalaxy:
Do you have to flash the kernel module if the ROM is MF3 based and the kernel was untouched. For example the Vision MF3 stock ROM.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] rayburne:
Instructions in the developer SS thread says to flash it.

I have seen others post things don't work unless they install the kernel module.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] FireRaider:
Wifi not working, even after patch? MDL

I have a bit of a different situation here (I think).

I am running MDOB 2.2 which is a MF3 build but my phone is a release day purchase and its not had the OTA for MF3. My baseband shows MDL, but isn't that really just the radio version? I believe my kernel is stock. I did try a couple non-TW ROMs, but MDOB has a stock kernel included from what I see.

I realize I don't need to run SafeStrap since I can flash whatever main ROM I prefer, unlike the recent purchasers who got the MF3 versions. But I really like the option to boot into any ROM I prefer for testing purposes or whatever. And indeed, it works well and I have no problems doing so.

Except for the WiFi. I have tried SHOstock and ViSion-X which are both TW based ROMs, so as to minimize any conflicts. I tried SHOstock with and without the kernel patch and could never get the wifi to turn on. The option is there, it just wont stay on when dragging the slider over to 'on'. I looked through the SHO thread and saw a couple of others with the same issue and figured maybe it was just something funky in the ROM. So I deleted SHO and flashed ViSion-X and still I am unable to turn on WiFi.

What am I doing wrong here? Is it because I am not 'really' on MF3 or something? Reading through the thread here it appears that shouldn't be the case. I see a couple others that are running SafeStrap with a MDL phone. I even got the impression that if you have not done the OTA MF3 update you don't need to flash the patch? And perhaps I could even run a non-TW ROM in the stock slot if I was on MDL.

But mainly I am looking for suggestions to make the TW based ROMs in the other slots have a functioning WiFi.

Any ideas?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] daveo24:
Ok can someone PM me because I really wanna try to understand how safestrap works. I downloaded a custom Rom already(graviton) and have it on my SD card but the whole rom slot thing confuses me. Do I install the custom Rom to the stock slot or to the 1st Rom slot?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] buggerritt:
Safestrap is currently the only option for those of us who are unfortunate enough to have the MF3 locked bootloader and wish to run a ROM other than stock. In your case, you can use a more versatile tool which allows the dual booting of any ROM, AOSP included. See the link below.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2447534
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] rayburne:
What kernel does MDOB use? Maybe you are running a custom kernel that the SS kernel module isn't compatible with?

I too thought I read others with MDL were using SS without issue.

If you haven't already, maybe try to flash back to stock MDL (make sure it doesn't update you to MF3).

Then root and install SS and retest?

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Here are some detailed instructions. Thanks Nick for posting these.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] intika:
the only purpose of adding SS is flashing to Stock Rom for those who don't want to loose space, plus the rom is fully customization and if we disable framework feature we make it the same as the stock one, (only difference, it's deodexed).

the rom is still install-able to virtual slot even if it include SS...

in other word, it's an MF3 dedicated rom ...

(plus i don't play at all with kernel etc. then even if we flash it with old SS version or if SS fail to do the job correctly, we still could recover the phone)

still have no answer from dev to post it :(