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[Galaxy S 4 General] oldblue910:
It's blank on mine too. There is no consistency on that screen across devices. On Nexus devices, it's a K. On the Moto X it's a number 1. On the GPE phones, it's blank.
[Galaxy S 4 General] rinthos:
Thanks [MENTION=3423169]oldblue910[/MENTION] and [MENTION=4546339]AwsmStar[/MENTION] . I was just wondering if this is a sign that the update was incomplete.

I guess it's "good?" to know this is normal for this device w/ the KitKat OTA.

They really did rush this out though, the 4.3 build had a few more 'cleanup' items..i.e. fewer (...) menu buttons on the screen since it specified the static menu button.

Thanks again.
[Galaxy S 4 General] jasunto:
Mine does nothing at all..not even blank screen.
[Galaxy S 4 General] UlixesTNT:
So, you're telling me that unless I install this APK, I won't have any unlimited home screens and the ability to trigger the "OK Google" command from the home screen just like the Nexus 5?

Any idea where they got this APK from or if it's been modified?

Also, I suppose I could go back to the old launcher just by uninstalling it even if I upgrade to 4.4; I mean, it doesn't "mix" with the rest of the OS, right?
[Galaxy S 4 General] oldblue910:
Paragraph 1: Yep that's exactly what we're saying.

Paragraph 2: It came from a Nexus 5 system dump and is entirely legit.

Paragraph 3: Correct.
[Galaxy S 4 General] oldblue910:
It fails device checks and gets stuck in QDLoad. Basically, yes, it's been tried and no, it doesn't work.

People, I mentioned this yesterday but it bears repeating. This thread is intended for owners of GT-I9505G devices to discuss OTAs for that device. It is not for discussing conversions or asking how to get the GPE ROM onto your I9500/I9505/whatever variant. There are countless other threads on these topics. Those are more appropriate forums for discussing such topics.

Thank you. :)
[Galaxy S 4 General] oldblue910:
Check the GS4 Q&A forums. All the info you need is there.
[Galaxy S 4 General] dancnpete:
I too needed to do the SD card fix as a result I modified my platform.xml,

So I found the Platform.xml.txt file in the other forum, and now I have a serious of uninformed questions:

1) Should I backup my current platform.xml and then install the other one?

2) if I then update will I again have the SD card problem?

3) if so can I restore the previous platform.xml after the update?

4) would an update with through odin have the SD card problem?

Thanks in advance if you can offer any assistance.
[Galaxy S 4 General] oldblue910:
You should overwrite the one you have, then make the appropriate changes to the new file after the OTA completes successfully.
[Galaxy S 4 General] Danvdh:
[MENTION=3423169]oldblue910[/MENTION]

Could you possibly upload me these files?

5 keymaster.xxx files from /system/vendor/firmware i need

if its not there check firmware/image

thank you so much
[Galaxy S 4 General] oldblue910:
If you need the ones from 4.3, I won't be able to get those until Monday when I'm home again. Can someone else help him out?
[Galaxy S 4 General] iamnotkurtcobain:
Guys PLEASE HELP! Anyone with a GE 4.4 and official GE 4.4 on it? Please share some files!

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=47954764

Please!

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[Galaxy S 4 General] oldblue910:
There are no keymaster files on my phone. I have a GPE GS4 with 4.4 on it.
[Galaxy S 4 General] pic2022:
Any ideas why it's failing?

I just put stock android back on my Galaxy S4 GPE phone and I am trying to put 4.4 on it. I currently have JWR66V.S014.130801 installed on my phone. Like I said I kept trying to install the newest build of 4.4 over this and it fails every time. Then I figured I would have to update and put JWR66Y on it first. So I attempted to install it over JWR66V but it as well failed. I am so lost and not quite sure why this is failing. Any ideas?
[Galaxy S 4 General] oldblue910:
You definitely have to update to JWR66Y first. Are you using the straight, stock factory JWR66V ROM? If you are, you should be getting OTA update notifications and no errors. What errors are you getting when upgrading from JWR66V to JWR66Y?
[Galaxy S 4 General] dancnpete:
Thanks for your help so far, I tried making the changes to the file using x-plore and e-file Explorer and it didn't work so I sucked it up and used Odin and that worked just fine. So then I tried to modify the permission.xml file and not only did it not work out crashed my system forcing me to have to factory wipe. Thankfully I had a titanium backup so didn't lose much.

All I thought I had to do was add to the WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE line:

<group gid=”media_rw” />

Is this the wrong thing or am I using the wrong program. Sorry if this is off-topic I didn't know where to post this otherwise.
[Galaxy S 4 General] oldblue910:
Hmmm... that I'm not sure. I have never done that mod. Does anyone have the write external SD mod working on KitKat?
[Galaxy S 4 General] SamuriHL:
It's done to the platform xml file. Modifying it will cause ota updates to fail so it should be backed up before editing it so you can restore it while taking new ota updates.
[Galaxy S 4 General] pic2022:
Updates

Alright thank you, I thought I would have to. What I did was I accidentally soft bricked my phone so I downloaded the whole 1.3 gb file of 4.2.2 OS and then once it installed i turned the phone on, set it up and then I was greeted with " Android has downloaded an update, restart to install" so I did. What caught my attention was that it booted into TWRP to install.. which I thought was interesting because it never did that before. I'm going to try and install the flashes from the first post and go from there. I'll let you know how it goes.
[Galaxy S 4 General] SamuriHL:
Updates can't be installed with twrp. You must restore stock recovery.
[Galaxy S 4 General] pic2022:
alright well then there is the problem. Do you know where I can find stock recovery? Since I have custom recovery installed can't I still just install the updates?
[Galaxy S 4 General] oldblue910:
Nope. You'll need to fully flash one of those rooted restore packages from the development section via Odin. Those all include stock recovery.
[Galaxy S 4 General] SamuriHL:
No no no. Just go to my recovery thread and grab the recovery odin image for the version you're on and flash it with odin. They are signed recovery images. :)
[Galaxy S 4 General] pic2022:
Alright thank you so much, I will try and find that, I don't know where to look though. By the way Raleigh sucks haha :D
[Galaxy S 4 General] oldblue910:
Good thing I live closer to Durham, then! ;) http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2388504 Flash that in Odin, then take all the OTA updates until you get to KitKat. You'll go from 4.2.2 to 4.3/JWR66V to 4.3/JWR66Y to 4.4.
[Galaxy S 4 General] pic2022:
haha touche. Alright i installed that from Odin, successfully updated to JWR66Y, now I am just waiting to update to 4.4, also should I re-install SuperSu? When my phone turns on it still has the unlock icon so I guess I might as well, also i think it wants me to install TWRP, should I or not?
[Galaxy S 4 General] oldblue910:
Update manually to KitKat first unless it's getting the OTA automatically. After you're on KitKat, then you can root, install TWRP, whatever you want.
[Galaxy S 4 General] pic2022:
alright awesome I will... only ummmm.... thing is..... umm........ :D how do I manually update? hahaha I haven't done this in awhile
[Galaxy S 4 General] oldblue910:
You want to download the KRT16S from JWR66Y file in the first post, them reboot into stock recovery. When you see "No Command" on the screen, press volume up while holding down the power key. That'll get you into the recovery menu. Choose "Install from ADB." Plug your phone into USB and do adb sideload update.zip. Simple as that.
[Galaxy S 4 General] dancnpete:
Okay so I just used the platform.xml that I had before and it worked fine. I got it here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2436494

Thanks for all the help
[Galaxy S 4 General] daxan:
hey guys!

Thanks to samuriHL i was able to put stock recovery on my phone and i got all the OTA updates installed even tho i was rooted and bootloader unlocked :o

How do i make superuser work again? keeps telling me *there is no SU binary installed, if you just upgraded to 4.3 u need to re-root* does that mean i lose root ?? how can i root 4.4?
[Galaxy S 4 General] SamuriHL:
I have a root program that'll restore root for you. Look in my ODIN FULL IMAGE thread.
[Galaxy S 4 General] pic2022:
Alright so I installed this like you said and there is NO WAY this is Android 4.4.... it looks like 4.3 with a skin on it.I do not think this is any way is 4.4. Last night I had 4.4 installed on my phone and it was way different from this.

EDIT: Wow... i just learned that this is kitKat but it's no nexus 7 experience... That is completely depressing.. this looks just like 4.3 :/ wow.
[Galaxy S 4 General] daxan:
i searched for it but all i could find was S4_GPE_ROOT?? am i doing something wrong? and yes 4.4 looks just like 4.3 :(
[Galaxy S 4 General] oldblue910:
Nexus 5 experience you mean. Yeah, the Google Experience Launcher is exclusive to the N5 right now but it'll be available on the Play Store eventually. You can sideload it by just installing the APK manually, though. It was left out on all OTAs for the GPE phones, as well as the Nexus 4, Nexus 7s and Nexus 10. For some perspective on why, see here: http://www.randomphantasmagoria.com/can-we-all-just-shut-up-about-the-google-experience-launcher/
[Galaxy S 4 General] kanal108:
question: can I already flash the new MKG firmware and still run Android 4.3.1 (actual cyanogenmod 10.2) or does it need an Android 4.4?

see:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2452034
[Galaxy S 4 General] Deanmek:
thanks :good:
[Galaxy S 4 General] abdulkerim88:
did anyone try to change selinux to permissive in the i9505 port?
[Galaxy S 4 General] TevicTT:
nice work,guy
[Galaxy S 4 General] oldblue910:
This would be better asked in a thread that is discussing whatever ROM you're using. See the top of the first post in this thread.
[Galaxy S 4 General] oldblue910:
So I'm sure some of you have noticed by now that Samsung seems to have made a change to the data indicator icons in the KRT16S update. On 4.2.2 and 4.3, the data indicator would show "H" when connected to HSPA or HSPA+, and would only show "3G" if connected to an old-school UMTS-only network. In 4.4, the data icon now shows 3G no matter if it's connected to UMTS, HSPA or HSPA+.

While this is semantically correct (since HSPA+ is really a 3G technology even though it's marketed as 4G due to speed), I thought this has to be a mistake on Samsung's part because all the Nexus devices, as well as the GPE One, still differentiate between H and 3G.

I got to thinking, though, and now I'm almost entirely convinced that it was intentional on Samsung's part. First off, when you compile AOSP, the default is to show H where appropriate. If you want it to show 3G universally, you have to go in and specifically change it. Further, I noticed that in KitKat they changed the whole "Mobile Networks" setting under Settings - More. It used to be that you could only force it to use 2G. Now you can select from 2G-only, 3G-only, or LTE. Samsung may have decided to always show 3G instead of H due to that setting, as not to cause confusion.

I guess time will tell and we'll see what happens in the next update, but something tells me that change was deliberate.
[Galaxy S 4 General] UlixesTNT:
It was just about time... I couldn't see the reason why they didn't allow to choose 2G/3G/4G before when the TW version did.

About the symbol: It's sort of annoying actually. They should have used a "U" for UMTS and "H" for HSPA (or at least "3.5G"); that wouldn't cause any confusion :o.

Anyway, I've just sideloaded 4.4 and was wondering how your batteries were doing. Do they last longer, less or the same?

Thank you.
[Galaxy S 4 General] oldblue910:
Mine seems to be about the same as on 4.3. I'm very happy with my battery life. I can get about 4 - 4.5 hours of screen on time if I'm lucky.
[Galaxy S 4 General] GoodOmens182:
Does anyone know if Watch On works with this ROM? Right now I'm using the AT&T stock version that blocks a lot of features I like, and that's the only thing I'm really concerned about giving up.
[Galaxy S 4 General] oldblue910:
WatchOn works just fine. At least it did on 4.3. I haven't tested it on 4.4, but the IR blaster is fully functional and the app itself works.
[Galaxy S 4 General] rohail6:
Hey I just updated my phone to 4.4 Kit Kat and I am missing the Google Experience Launcher, as well the holo dark background (the background of the settings app for example) has a gradiant fill unlike 4.2 where it was pure black. Also when I press the volume up button on the home screen it makes a very strange sound as if it played three sounds. I'm not sure if I'm the only one with this problem and am very concerned. Should I be waiting for another update and/or is this an issue with my handset? Also, I have a problem with writing to the micro SD Card, it was possible with 4.2 but now it keeps saying I'm not allowed.

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Hey bro, I'm REALLY liking your website. Job well done, and very convenient.
[Galaxy S 4 General] oldblue910:
The Google Experience Launcher is exclusive to the Nexus 5. It was not included in OTAs for the GPE phones, nor was it included in any OTA for the Nexus 4, 7s or 10. If you want it, you'll have to download and install the APK file manually: http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23212708291676903

Did you ever run 4.3? Or did you upgrade straight from 4.2.2? Because 4.3 had the gradient background as well. As for the volume issue, it sounds like it might be raising the volume more than once, thus why you're hearing multiple sounds. Before we say it's a problem with your handset, I'd try a factory reset and see if that solves your problem. As for writing to the microSD card, I believe you'll have to root and make some kind of change to an XML file somewhere in order to enable that. I have no use for a microSD card, so I've never explored that issue myself. Does anyone know what steps you have to do to enable that?
[Galaxy S 4 General] highvista:
The fix for this is to edit the /system/etc/permissions/platform.xml file and change

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

<group gid="sdcard_rw" />

</permission>

to

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

<group gid="sdcard_rw" />

<group gid="media_rw" />

</permission>

MAKE SURE YOU MAKE A COPY OF THE ORIGINAL FILE FIRST!!!! And, before applying future upgrades, remember to replace your edited file with the original one. Otherwise, you may end up with an error when you try to apply the update.

I depend on a 64GB microSDXC card for holding my music collection, so this fix was critical for me.
[Galaxy S 4 General] SamuriHL:
For the love of all that's freaking holy on this earth, PLEASE tell people to BACK UP the original platform xml file!! Otherwise when we get 4.4.1 in a couple weeks, we're going to go through all this "my OTA fails" nonsense again. DON'T EDIT THIS WITHOUT BACKING IT UP. I beg you.
[Galaxy S 4 General] highvista:
Good point. Post edited. Thanks for the advice. :)
[Galaxy S 4 General] SamuriHL:
Much appreciated. I'm hoping we can avoid the issues we had with this update not just on this forum but on others. This platform xml file modification is um "popular with the kids" and none of them backed it up so the OTA failed. And then it was people saying things like "but I removed root and it's still not working." People are too quick to blame being rooted for their problems rather than the effects of what they DO with root. I'm rooted and NEVER unroot before taking OTA's and have zero problems. But anyway, yea, hopefully if people back up the platform xml before editing they can quickly restore it when doing the next OTA.
[Galaxy S 4 General] romdroid:
4.4 has some issues on the Camera Autofocus on my Galaxy S4 GPE. It's really a mess right now. Focusing sometimes takes a long time and sometimes never gets it right. I'm thinking of downgrading to 4.3 again.

Any of you have blurred shots after updating to 4.4 from the usual sharp and focus shots on 4.3?

Can I just straight flash the 4.3 files (seen on this thread) Sorry haven't done this in a long time..
[Galaxy S 4 General] SamuriHL:
Wait for 4.4.1. It fixes it. Should be coming in a couple weeks.
[Galaxy S 4 General] romdroid:
Thanks. I thought that it will only address Nexus 5s. So it's a kitkat problem i guess?
[Galaxy S 4 General] SamuriHL:
Google has rewritten the camera API completely and was supposed to have it ready for 4.4. Hence all the claims about the Moto X and Nexus 5 cameras being "vastly improved" blah blah blah. Well, they weren't able to get the new API into 4.4 so it's being pushed out in 4.4.1. The same problems you're experiencing are happening on the NX5, as well. This update will push out to NX5 first, then other NX devices, and then ours about 2 weeks after the other NX devices get it. It should vastly start to improve camera quality across the board on Android devices.
[Galaxy S 4 General] :
HELP, I deleted my backed up original platform.xml for 4.4

Would someone mind posting a 4.4 stock platform.xml. I stupidly deleted the wrong backup file!!

TIA

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[Galaxy S 4 General] SamuriHL:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/t1ubjgufifht44d/platform_4.4.zip

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I swear I'm going to get rich and write an app that modifies and restores the platform xml file and sell it on the play store. LMAO
[Galaxy S 4 General] :
Thanks SamuriHL.

if you write that app, I'll buy it! :)
[Galaxy S 4 General] SamuriHL:
I'll consider it. It's not a difficult app to write. I just have other projects I need to finish for the Moto crowd first.
[Galaxy S 4 General] jaykresge:
The MicroSD directory and read/write permission should be fixed on ES in short order.

http://androidforums.com/samsung-galaxy-s4-google-edition/

I'm pressed for time, so I'm only assisting them right now. Once we get this sorted, I'll be reaching out to a few of my favorite File Manager developers. I'll report back with which File Managers are working and which aren't, specifically for stock, unmodified Galaxy S4 GPe devices. This should make things easier for those who do not want to deal with modifying their XML files.
[Galaxy S 4 General] EthanFirst:
Hi all.

My app new version can install update package (request root access and base app).

Video review

[YOUTUBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQeY3drlx_Y[/YOUTUBE]

If you want use it. You can download Nexus Update Checker on Google Play Store
[Galaxy S 4 General] :
Is there a way of sending a modified or orig platform.xml via adb?

My 4.4 setup is completely screwed up. I tried doing a factory reset, but now Setup Wizard is crashing upon reboot. It is complaining about platform.xml. I have the original file, but I need some way of getting it to the right place via my PC rather than on the phone itself. Is this possible?
[Galaxy S 4 General] :
Completely bricked my s4GPE --- HELP HELP HELP

Maybe someone will have some advice, but I have now completely and utterly bricked my phone. I mean, other than being able to flash a recovery firmware, I can't format /data, I can't do a factory reset. I think I wiped the partition by mistake, I mean.. BAD BAD BAD!! (note to self: don't customize a phone at 1am in the morning!)

ANY advice?

I've tried using pit files

I've tried CWM

I've tried TWRP

I've been using ODIN

I have gotten nowhere.

Dalvik won't wipe

/data won't wipe (it says Unable to find partition size)

ANYONE???
[Galaxy S 4 General] SamuriHL:
What do you mean you "tried using PIT files"??? From where? That can permanently brick your phone if you flash the wrong one.
[Galaxy S 4 General] :
Yeah, I think I used the wrong one.. i got it from http://wccftech.com/how-to-unbrick-samsung-galaxy-s4/
[Galaxy S 4 General] SamuriHL:
Let me guess, you chose the i9505 file on that site. i9505 != i9505g. As a result, you may have just permanently bricked a 600 dollar device.
[Galaxy S 4 General] oldblue910:
I can provide an I9505G PIT file if anyone needs it.
[Galaxy S 4 General] SamuriHL:
I didn't know anyone still had it. I'd take a copy of it if you don't mind. You can pm me if that's ok. But I suspect they will need it for sure. If they can still get to ODIN mode, MAYBE it'll resurrect it. But they will need to find a *FULL* ODIN image after that...not the ODIN images I create, but, a complete image. To my knowledge, we only ever saw leaked ones (which is where I'm guessing you got the PIT?) which were pulled before I was able to get my hands on one. This is not going to be an easy recovery I'm afraid.
[Galaxy S 4 General] oldblue910:
Well y'all are in luck. I have the MFP 4.3 leak for I9505G that contains all factory signed ODIN images for the bootloader, radio, system, boot, recovery, CSC, and PIT file. It's 100% complete. Now of course MFP won't OTA to newer versions, so once you flash it and get running again, you'll have to use the MFD or MH1 rooted restore ODIN packages from the development forum to get back onto an official release.

I'm out right now but will get the MFP package on my Google Drive later this evening.
[Galaxy S 4 General] SamuriHL:
Just don't post it publicly. Certain companies frown upon that. But that would be awesome. I wish I knew the partition order for all the partitions. I have a script that dumps them all but I don't know how to assemble them. Plus they wouldn't be signed...well, most wouldn't. I can create a lot of them. The trick with getting from the leak to an official build is in the modems. You have to flash a newer signed modem for it to allow an OTA to work.
[Galaxy S 4 General] oldblue910:
OK guys, here's what we need.

First off, I've PMed both of you the link to the MFP leak. It has absolutely everything you'll need. I have only tested this in Odin 3.09, and my instructions are based off that.

Download the MFP zip, unpack it into a folder. Go into ODIN, and browse each file individually into the following fields:

PIT = CSB_signed_Fusion3_GED_0610_V2.pit

BL = BOOTLOADER_I9505GUEUBMFP_968842_REV06_user_low_ship_MULTI_CERT.tar.md5

AP = PLATFORM_I9505GUEUBMFP_968842_REV06_user_low_ship_MULTI_CERT.tar.md5

CP = MODEM_I9505GUEUBMFP_968842_REV06_user_low_ship_MULTI_CERT.tar.md5

CSC = CSC_XAR_I9505GXARBMFP_968842_REV06_user_low_ship_MULTI_CERT.tar.md5

Flash that with Odin and your phone should be back to raw factory state using I9505GUEUBMFP.

The next step is to flash SamuriHL's rooted restore via Odin. Download it here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2398217

Flash that single tar.md5 file using only the AP field in Odin. Once you reboot, you'll be running official 4.3/JWR66V/I9505GUEUBMH1. At that stage, you should get an OTA to 4.3/JWR66Y/I9505GUEUBMH5, then after that, you'll get an OTA to 4.4/KRT16S/I9505GUEUCMKG. You should be good to go at that stage. :good:
[Galaxy S 4 General] SamuriHL:
Truly appreciated! I'm going to take a look through these files and see what I can make for us going forward. :D