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[Galaxy S 4 General] Noeh23:
Problems

Hello xde-developers community, I have so far used this forum to find information and till now this has been very useful, but now I need your active help.

I have a Samsung Galaxy S4 and I have immediatelly flashed Android 4.3 Google Play edition on it after I got it. The system data are

Model number: GT-I9505G

Android version: 4.3

Baseband version: I9505XXUDMH7

Kernel version: 3.4.0 faux123@localhost.localdomain #3

Build number: JWR66Y.S003.130805

I understand that I should be using this file to flash KitKat on my phone - KRT16S from JWR66Y

I am using TWRP 2.6.0 and any time I try to install the above mention file I get a failure.

Maybe I am doing something wrong, but I can't figure out what. I have cleared the cashe, dalvik cashe, I did a factory reset, I fixed the root access in TWRP and every time I try to install KitKat I get a failure notice.

Anybody could please list the steps I should take - step by step - to be successful. I did the 4.3 installation with no problem and 4.4 is a nightmare.

Thank you very much for your help in advace.

PS. I am stupid not to write down what the error said. If that is necessary I can simulate the error again - but I would rather not do it if that could brick my phone.
[Galaxy S 4 General] oldblue910:
Sorry, but you do not have a Google Play Edition phone. You have an I9505 that is running a custom ROM based on the GPE ROM, thus your device is only pretending to be an I9505G. These OTA updates will only work on a real I9505G Google Play Edition phone running the stock factory ROM. If you want KitKat, you'll have to flash another ROM.
[Galaxy S 4 General] oldblue910:
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[Galaxy S 4 General] Noeh23:
thank you

Thank you very much, this did not even occur to me.

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got one here - http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2341026

Worked on the first try ... thank you again for your help
[Galaxy S 4 General] johannes140:
Hi guys,

there should be a new OTA KOT49E coming soon. It will fix ART for Whatsapp, improve camera quality and speed and has several other fixes (according to [MENTION=4354408]broodplank1337[/MENTION] over 300 patches). Please mention it here, as soon as you receive an OTA notification and pull the update.zip, if possible. Thanks ;)
[Galaxy S 4 General] SamuriHL:
I'm always on top of new OTA's. My prediction is for the 20th. But I'll know about 24 hours in advance of when it's pushed. I have a script that makes the ODIN flash files so we'll be all over it when it drops.
[Galaxy S 4 General] oldblue910:
KOT49E seems to be running pretty well on my Nexus 7 and Nexus 10, but then again I didn't have any real complaints with KRT16S. haha Hopefully the GPE phones will get the OTA soon. I know KOT49E is primarily a bugfix and "behind the scenes" release, but really the only visual changes I noticed between KOT49E and KRT16S was a new settings icon in quick settings and a transparent top bar on the lock screen.
[Galaxy S 4 General] SamuriHL:
Perhaps we can skip 4.4.1. Ahem...4.4.2 is rolling out now. SIGH :)
[Galaxy S 4 General] oldblue910:
I bet Sammy and HTC are cussing Google out right now becuase of the GPE phones.
[Galaxy S 4 General] SamuriHL:
I wouldn't blame them. :D
[Galaxy S 4 General] chang351:
I just flashed 4.4 back onto my S4. I am hoping for the OTA to 4.4.2 soon. 4.4 did not play well with exchange.

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Speaking of flashing... What is the preferred recovery for the S4 GPE? I am using recovery-clockwork-touch-6.0.4.4-jfltexx.img, but in order to the flash the 4.4 OTA, I had to remove the assist check (clockwork says it is the jfltexx instead of jgedlte). TWRP didn't let me sideload, gave me the get_prop security=="1" error.

Also, any one have the stock recovery img for the S4 GPE? I didn't think to back it up until after I hit enter on the heimdall flash command.
[Galaxy S 4 General] oldblue910:
I've actually never been able to get a custom recovery to work with my GS4 GPE's touchscreen. This, of course, renders TWRP absolutely useless but CWM still works since you can navigate with the volume keys. It doesn't seem to be a very common problem. I think it might have something to do with the fact that I keep stock recovery flashed and only go into a custom recovery by using fastboot boot recovery.img. Something tells me if I permanently flashed CWM or TWRP via Odin, the touch screen would work fine in recovery.
[Galaxy S 4 General] SamuriHL:
Yes, that's a known limitation of booting from memory. The root script I put together does that and I have to use CWM touchless to make it work.
[Galaxy S 4 General] oldblue910:
Glad to know my theory was correct then. That's a really weird limitation.
[Galaxy S 4 General] SamuriHL:
We all agree. It's strange. It's why we don't have an auto-cf root method for the S4 GPE that simply boots in memory rather than having to flash recovery. Chainfire tried like hell to get it to work and it would just hang. :(
[Galaxy S 4 General] oldblue910:
The only thing that immediately comes to mind is maybe some quirk in the bootloader. I mean, either way it's a harmless quirk in the end if you can perm-flash and have it work. But I much prefer booting from memory personally.
[Galaxy S 4 General] SamuriHL:
Well, back before I had scripts to make a signed recovery,we needed to root without overwriting recovery so we could dd extract it. That's not necessary anymore since I can build a signed recovery img from an OTA quite easily. So, it's not a big deal as we can just ODIN flash stock recovery back after rooting so we can take future OTA's.
[Galaxy S 4 General] SimSemilia:
battery drain

have you guys notice battery drain with the 4.4 update? i notice that my battery does not last as log as it used to do with the 4.3 version!
[Galaxy S 4 General] oldblue910:
It's been exactly the same for me. No better, no worse. Battery life is very subjective and very user-dependent. It depends on so many factors...from apps installed to usage patterns, etc. There's really no "one size fits all" when it comes to battery life.
[Galaxy S 4 General] chang351:
I guess that would explain why the CWM touch recovery works on my phone.
[Galaxy S 4 General] johannes140:
New version ML4

Hey guys, it seems an OTA is on our doorsteps, ready to be pushed out soon ;)

New source code for version ML4 has been released by Samsung, see http://opensource.samsung.com/reception/receptionSub.do?method=search&searchValue=GT-I9505G.
[Galaxy S 4 General] oldblue910:
Woohoo! Hopefully this time the HSPA+ indicator will show H instead of 3G and they won't include the "Home Screen Tips" widget from GIngerbread! ;) If anyone gets the OTA, please post the filename here.
[Galaxy S 4 General] SamuriHL:
That should mean today. Damn that was quick. Wonder if it's 4.4.1 or 4.4.2. Once I get a link to the ota I'll sideload it and create odin packages for it.
[Galaxy S 4 General] oldblue910:
I'd almost guarantee it's 4.4.2. We had KRT16S a week after the Nexus phones. It doesn't seem to take long for the OEMs to get these GPE ROMs ready.
[Galaxy S 4 General] SamuriHL:
I guess we'll find out later. :)
[Galaxy S 4 General] toastido:
New S4 I9550G source posted on samsung's site

Samsung this morning has posted the new 4.4.2 build of the open source kernel/modules. (http://opensource.samsung.com) labeled "ML4". This means the new 4.4.2 should roll out to the I9505G from google very soon. :D :good:

EDIT: Attached Screenshot.

EDIT2: seems as though johannes140 beat me to it. Oh well. it's all good. :)
[Galaxy S 4 General] :
:victory::victory:I9505GUEUCML4 android 4.4.2 KOT49H
[Galaxy S 4 General] toastido:
Are you saying you got an OTA already?
[Galaxy S 4 General] :
NO.I waiting.:fingers-crossed::fingers-crossed::fingers-crossed::fingers-crossed:
[Galaxy S 4 General] jaykresge:
OTA went out tonight for all four current GPE devices. Personally saw a G-Pad and HTC One get the update, but my S4 didn't yet. Given the way that Google has admitted to rolling out their updates (1%, 25%, 50%, 100%), I expect to get my update within the next few days, hopefully.

Given that my chief complaint with my S4 GPE has been the atrocious camera quality (far worse than my S2 i9100), I'm looking forward to testing the camera software revisions.
[Galaxy S 4 General] oldblue910:
If anyone gets the OTA, please get the filename and post it here!
[Galaxy S 4 General] willverduzco:
And please send me a PM or email with a tip :)
[Galaxy S 4 General] dandroid13:
I see some guys already have 4.4.2 but nobody shared the OTA name/system dump... :(
[Galaxy S 4 General] Danvdh:
4.4.2 OTA i9505g

http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23269279319195825

tested and I already have a ROM uploaded :)

I need to get some sleep now, goodnight guys I can upload the clean system dump later on today but I'm about to pass out, been at this all night

Dandroid is running smooth, VM indicator is fixed, reboots seem to be fixed on stock kernel as well on intl, reports ok so far
[Galaxy S 4 General] SamuriHL:
Sweet. I'll get it installed and make some odin images soon.
[Galaxy S 4 General] EthanFirst:
SS-I9505GUEUCMKG-to-UCML4
[Galaxy S 4 General] SamuriHL:
They removed the ability to apply the update from external sdcard??? Come on Google... Wth
[Galaxy S 4 General] toastido:
cc80dccc7febf9b7685d56ac5c1094f3e9eaa023.SS-I9505GUEUCMKG-to-UCML4_Update_FWD.zip
[Galaxy S 4 General] oldblue910:
Thank you! First post updated!
[Galaxy S 4 General] toastido:
Confirmed Google URL working great!
[Galaxy S 4 General] oldblue910:
Also, it looks like this KOT49H update fixes the 3G/H bug that was introduced in KRT16S. HSPA/HSPA+ connections were displaying as 3G rather than H. For some reason, though, they still felt the need to include the Gingerbread "Home Screen Tips" widget like they did in KRT16S. I have absolutely no idea why Samsung started including that. No other Nexus or GPE device includes it and the last Nexus that DID include it was the Nexus S.
[Galaxy S 4 General] toastido:
My hope is they fixed the Exchange ActiveSync looping bug in E-Mail, and the ART runtime bugs that were found by WhatsApp and a few other choice apps. Only time will tell for me about the Exchange one, but the ART bugs *APPEARS* to be fixed... at least WhatsApp is happy now.
[Galaxy S 4 General] EthanFirst:
For root device. You can update from my app. Get it from my signature.
[Galaxy S 4 General] SamuriHL:
I've updated my modem and recovery thread and started a new ODIN thread for ML4. The ODIN full restore image is uploading now and should be done shortly. Interestingly I maintained root through this update by using SuperSU Pro's protect root functionality. Seemed to work nicely so that saved me a step.
[Galaxy S 4 General] oldblue910:
We all appreciate your hard work on those images! You've saved many people with those.
[Galaxy S 4 General] toastido:
I managed to maintain root through the last two OTAs using that method (SuperSU Pro's protect root). It works well.

Testing thus far.. Could be the placebo effect, but my signal strength appears slightly better on the new modem, and the GPE Camera.apk seems snappier. The App Ops has indeed been pulled, and causes settings to force close, but that was to be expected. So far so good on the ART runtime in this build!
[Galaxy S 4 General] SamuriHL:
Thanks man. The ODIN FULL RESTORE link is now live in the new thread. Enjoy!
[Galaxy S 4 General] toastido:
Is this new?!

I don't recall a "Cast" option in settings before...
[Galaxy S 4 General] gotluck:
I thought I was going crazy... lol glad to know I'm not the only one
[Galaxy S 4 General] SamuriHL:
The really whacked part is it took me a few minutes to even GET it on the SDCARD cause root explorer was having root issues. I fixed it, got it on the sdcard, loaded recovery......and no option. LMAO! They removed it in MKG's recovery. Idiots.
[Galaxy S 4 General] oldblue910:
So, after playing with the new update all day, here are since thoughts.

First off, I'm glad they rectified the 3G/H problem that popped up in the KRT16S/MKG update.

Also, some of the camera improvements definitely made their way to the GS4 GPE. Images seem sharper, but that could just be placebo effect. What's undeniable, though, is that the speed going from lock screen to camera, the shutter speed, and focusing speed are all noticeably better.
[Galaxy S 4 General] SamuriHL:
In theory 4.4.2 should be using Google's new camera API which should account for a lot of the improvements. Now they can make it better going forward.
[Galaxy S 4 General] oldblue910:
I just wish the GPE could take pictures in 16:9 wide-screen like the retail variants do.
[Galaxy S 4 General] SamuriHL:
They're using Samsung's camera app which defeats the purpose of an AOSP phone experience. :D
[Galaxy S 4 General] oldblue910:
Yes. I had an AT&T GS4 with Touchwiz before buying the GPE. There's no arguing that Samsung's camera app wipes its ass with Google's. Sorry, not sorry. ;)
[Galaxy S 4 General] SamuriHL:
My wife's got the AT&T variant so I completely understand. Wonder if we can rip it off of that thing and get it to work on the GPE. :D
[Galaxy S 4 General] oldblue910:
Sounds like an "it's 3am and I'm wide awake" project to me!

I actually ditched a Nexus 4 for an AT&T GS4 because I fell in love with the screen and the hardware. Plus it was refreshing to be away from stock Android for a little while since I'd been straight stock since the Nexus S.

After about 3 months, I finally couldn't do it anymore. I had to have an official stock ROM again. Thankfully the GPE existed so I could keep the phone I loved and have official stock Android. Best of both worlds! :good: Plus I sold my AT&T GS4 for a good price, so the GPE variant didn't really cost me a whole lot.
[Galaxy S 4 General] gotluck:
that would be wonderful :D
[Galaxy S 4 General] mk2vr6:
Shame they never sold the i9505G in the UK :(
[Galaxy S 4 General] oldblue910:
Something tells me that's more the Samsung's doing than it is Google's, but I could be wrong.
[Galaxy S 4 General] lizcanoc:
Thanks form this

Enviado desde mi SGH-I337M mediante Tapatalk
[Galaxy S 4 General] toastido:
FYI... The exchange ActiveSync loop bug has been fixed!
[Galaxy S 4 General] ksujace:
The 4.4.2 update failed on my rooted I9505g, anyone else having this problem?

I get "assert failed: getprop("ro.product.device") -- "jgedlte" getprop("ro.build.product") = "jgedlte"

(status 7)

Installation aborted.
[Galaxy S 4 General] toastido:
This means you have modified something in /system more than likely. Make sure you are fully stock and try again.
[Galaxy S 4 General] SamuriHL:
And it's an ACTUAL i9505G....right? Not some other phone with an i9505G image flashed to it?
[Galaxy S 4 General] ksujace:
Yes it's a 9505G -- I flashed your ODIN file from the other thread and it worked great. Thank you.
[Galaxy S 4 General] SamuriHL:
I had to ask. We get a lot of questions from people who flashed a "rom" to their non-i9505g and have "issues". I'm glad you got it going. Had you only confirmed you were in fact on a real i9505g, the ODIN full system restore would have been my next recommendation.
[Galaxy S 4 General] thedrkstr:
ota fails

Can anyone tell me why an OTA update always fails or a downloaded zip file fails to install, Always get an error and install aborts. Using twrp on GPE phone with kitkat 4.4 installed. Cannot upgrade to 4.4.2. Update from randomphantasmagoria.com to 4.4 worked fine with odin which is a tar file. why is it not possible to update using a zip
[Galaxy S 4 General] oldblue910:
You modified something on /system or you're using a custom kernel.
[Galaxy S 4 General] SamuriHL:
You're getting sloppy. :P They said they're using TWRP. No stock recovery, no OTA. ;)
[Galaxy S 4 General] thedrkstr:
Wish it was true. I do not know how to modify system or kernel. I installed 4.4 using Odin without problem. Any idea on what to look for. Or should I reset phone back to factory and try again? Are there any apps I should NOT have installed that could cause problem. IS TWRP recovery 2.6.3.0 OK? I admit I don't know enough about the phone so I sure would appreciate any help

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Tried it with stock recovery for kitkat 4.4 . Still did not work. I know I am doing something wrong. Would appreciate pointing me in right direction.

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Ok I just installed stock recovery using odin 3.09 and recovery_mkg.tar. I notice it took quite a while for pass to appear in odin, bit no errors were indicated.

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rebooted into recovery. No option to upgrade, I only have wipe cache and wipe partition and reboot or apply using adb. System recovery is KRT165. Any ideas anyone?

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Please guys. I really am stuck here and need some help. I know you guys are the experts and have read a lot of solutions to problems on this thread.. This phone is my only source of calling out. I live in a remote area and really need it.

rebooted into recovery. No option to upgrade, I only have wipe cache and wipe data and reboot or apply using adb. System recovery is KRT165. Any ideas anyone?
[Galaxy S 4 General] adalhosani:
:confused:
[Galaxy S 4 General] bleez99:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2569510
[Galaxy S 4 General] thedrkstr:
Thanks but I kept searching and finally found a tar file for my cell, I installed it fine with odin and now at 4.4.2
[Galaxy S 4 General] jaykresge:
ES File Explorer now works with MicroSD without any modifications.
[Galaxy S 4 General] toastido:
Indeed. Sadly, though, TB still needs the permissions fix to use the micro SD.
[Galaxy S 4 General] Ima_SpaceR:
works great
[Galaxy S 4 General] jaykresge:
I was mistaken. It doesn't work.
[Galaxy S 4 General] toastido:
Ah. I was agreeing since it said it did in the release notes for the update. Oops.
[Galaxy S 4 General] jaykresge:
Does anyone else have this problem? Noticed in 4.4 update, continues in 4.4.2 update.

If any videos/photos are stored on the phone (internal storage or MicroSD), both the Gallery app and the Photos app within Google Plus spaz out and crash upon opening. Both do fine with photos/videos stored in the cloud but fail to function with locally stored content.

Rebooted phone, cleared the apps' data and cache, even did a factory reset. Issue persists. Just want to see if everyone else has the issue (therefore, software issue), or if no one else does (therefore, hardware failure, RMA). If commenting, please state if using actual i9505G purchased off Google Play, or if using different model with GPe ROM.
[Galaxy S 4 General] fastrony:
S4 I9500

Is it available For I9500 Plz
[Galaxy S 4 General] SamuriHL:
No.
[Galaxy S 4 General] oldblue910:
Please read the very first few sentences in the first post. The stuff in big, bold letters.
[Galaxy S 4 General] Bow4Glory:
Does anyone having an issue to focus using HDR? If I touch the screen to focus, it appears a circle, but then no focus at all. This only happens with HDR, no issue taking normal pictures

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[Galaxy S 4 General] racerex:
Yes I have the same problem on my i9505G when trying to shoot HDR. The majority of the time it just refuses to focus! In normal picture mode though the focusing is fine.
[Galaxy S 4 General] Bow4Glory:
That's so annoying. I hope they'll fix it soon.

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[Galaxy S 4 General] racerex:
Yah it really is annoying. It's interesting because most of the i9505G reviews said that the still and video image quality remained comparable to the i9505. In my opinion though it really isn't. Little bugs like the HDR blurriness are ruining it for me.

Also, I just started another thread on an issue I'm having with video recording. I don't want to crosspost but at a high level I think the i9505G video recording frame rate is nowhere near 30fps during 1080p video recording. In contrast my GS3 could pull off 1080p very smoothly with no choppiness.

Is it possible the imaging related drivers for i9505G are different and less optimized than those for the non-Google Play Edition variants??
[Galaxy S 4 General] jl4c:
Thanks
[Galaxy S 4 General] maharu567:
So, the multimedia part in this rom is very bad...
[Galaxy S 4 General] racerex:
Yes that's the feeling I get. Even though i9505G h/w is identical to i9505, I feel that in the imaging department the s/w and drivers aren't as optimized. The OS aspect though is better because it gets OTA updates a couple weeks after Google releases new revs of Android. Is the tradeoff worth it?? I think that's a matter of personal preference/opinion.
[Galaxy S 4 General] highvista:
I've run into another media issue that seems specific to the Google Play Edition software. I wrote an app that I use to play streaming audio. It uses the stock Android SDK media methods and services. It used to play AAC-based streams just fine on my Galaxy Nexus running stock Android 4.2.2 but does not on my S4 GPE under 4.4.2. The app still plays the streams fine within the Android emulator running as a simulated Nexus 4 with Android 4.4.2. Definitely a bit annoying.
[Galaxy S 4 General] racerex:
Is anyone else experiencing choppy video recording? It feels like the frame rate is well below 30fps... probably closer to 16fps which is really bad. I thought 4.4.2 was supposed to improve things in the imaging department and I was hoping video recording fps would be one of them.
[Galaxy S 4 General] ciborio:
No video recording problem here

Inviato dal mio GT-I9505G con Tapatalk
[Galaxy S 4 General] gugugrp:
A GE Stock ROM can be installed on the i9505?

Enviado de meu GT-I9505 usando Tapatalk
[Galaxy S 4 General] SamuriHL:
Read the very first paragraph of the first post in this thread.
[Galaxy S 4 General] oldblue910:
Depends on what you have right now. What firmware are you running?
[Galaxy S 4 General] elJukes:
This is probably a silly question but I was wondering, would it be possible to take a nandroid backup from say your GPE GT-I19505 and restore it to my TW GT-I9505?

If not and you have the time would you mind explaining a little bit about why it wouldn't work? Is it too simplistic to think that because the base hardware is the same the software/firmware should port across without any problems?

Thanks
[Galaxy S 4 General] oldblue910:
Unfortunately not, The partitions are different on the I9505G, so the only real way to run the Google Experience ROM would be to run a custom ROM based on it, but designed for use on I9505.
[Galaxy S 4 General] elJukes:
Thanks for the quick reply! That's a shame to hear. Perhaps it's just me but I'd much rather have the official release over an edited ROM.
[Galaxy S 4 General] oldblue910:
You and me both, dude. I don't root or run custom ROMs generally. I know how, but once I knew how, my curiosity was satisfied. Also, even if you could technically restore an I9505G backup to an I9505 device, you still wouldn't be able to apply an official OTA update because the radio and bootloader are both incompatible. There's no way that we know of to run the I9505G radio or bootloader on any other device.
[Galaxy S 4 General] elJukes:
Found an article today about HTC One's, I can't post links yet so you'll have to try googling this

"How to Convert Any HTC One into a Stock Google Play Edition"

Full firmware, boot loader, recovery & OTA updates. Looks like HTC users have one up on us.
[Galaxy S 4 General] oldblue910:
Yeah, definitely.
[Galaxy S 4 General] U Flippin Idiot:
Thanks so much for this. I just got my S4 today from Google and upgraded as soon as I turned it on. Better than waiting.
[Galaxy S 4 General] oldblue910:
Did your phone not get the OTAs out of the box on first boot?
[Galaxy S 4 General] U Flippin Idiot:
No. I had it up for about 20 minutes and no update. I even reset date and tried to get it that way. After 25 minutes I was just too impatient to wait.