yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] popfan:
Yes, It is for Odin, so don't use it unless you want to lose root and everything else. We don't know if we can root it or not. We also don't know if it will make it harder or easy to get into the bootloader.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] yankeesfan714:
Somebody that doesn't need root should give this a go and confirm whether or not we can return to mf1 or not.

GT-i9295(i537) running SafeStrap
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] uvbeenzaned:
Well I guess we could always find someone to JTAG back to mf3 or whatever for someone who would like to sacrifice their phone. :P

Sent from my Galaxy S4 Active.

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Does anyone here know how to make a safe flashable zip out of this once its uploaded?

Sent from my Galaxy S4 Active.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] yankeesfan714:
I do not think we should be doing anything with designgears work except odin it. Maybe we can ask him if it is OK before we go editing anything.

GT-i9295(i537) running SafeStrap
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] uvbeenzaned:
Did you see what he said in rootzwiki? " or wait for someone to make a cwm/twrp zip.”

Sent from my Galaxy S4 Active.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] yankeesfan714:
I stand corrected.

GT-i9295(i537) running SafeStrap
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] joshuadjohnson22:
As long as we give proper credit I am sure it is fine. The problem is we still don't have any devs(that I know of)... [MENTION=4434032]thatbigmoose[/MENTION] is about as close as I have seen... but he is no Dev
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] :
I just got to work. I work second shift and won't get home until 11:30 tonight. I'll work on this tonight once I'm settled in at home. If no one here doesn't get to this before me, I'll test it out anyway. If I lose root, so be it. I have a few different methods on my computer for root that I can try.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] joshuadjohnson22:
plus you may still have SS running, I wouldn't remove it cuz without root you can't add it back
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] Devo7v:
[Ignore]
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] designgears:
Its live! You guys can do whatever you want with it, except trying to profit from the file by putting it on an ad farm site.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] fegarciaii:
You are the greatest!! ;)
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] yankeesfan714:
[/COLOR]

Keep us posted buddy.

GT-i9295(i537) running SafeStrap
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] joshuadjohnson22:
Who did this? I only knew of the link you posted before... I did not see anyone from our Active Community posting a link separate from the one you posted.... It is a shame people would do that

Thanks for all your work, if I do see someone do this I will report the post.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] yankeesfan714:
I'm with you. Maybe if we all report wrongdoers then hopefully there will be more leaks in our future.

GT-i9295(i537) running SafeStrap
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] joshuadjohnson22:
My only worry is the wrongdoers are apart of a different forum community which will make it hard for us to see it. Every link I saw posted just redirected us to his original post... which leads me to believe we never saw this happening.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] :
I never installed safestrap. With all of my games, music and movies installed I only have 1.5 gb left on my internal memory and I didn't want to partition what I had left and run another rom with nothing extra installed. I have to much money invested into the play store to not have my phone set up the way I want it. If we were unlocked with a another recovery it would be another story.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] dave5777:
If you Odin this can you still use the earlier Odin to go back to mf1 and root?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] :
Yea I will. It's killing me not to be at home working on this. I've been debating taking a vacation day for the rest of the day.:)
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] joshuadjohnson22:
The other samsung updates blocked downgrading in ODIN so don't count on it
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] br0adband:
Bleh, missed out on the fun of the immediate release but whatever... ;)

Grabbing this from Mega now and will most likely just get my GS4A in as clean a state as I can (remove Safestrap, all the slots, do a wipe, etc) then install this. As stated, if I get "stuck" then so be it, as long as it's 4.3 I can't imagine there will be a lot of issues over time. Root is valuable, sure, but I find myself not doing anything at the moment that absolutely requires it, and perhaps someone will end up cracking things wide open at some point.

We can always hope. I will give a sitrep when I'm up and running again with benches, etc. Wish me/us luck... :D
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] imaspaceguy90:
Seems cool
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] dave5777:
It works haven't tried to root yet.

<ID:0/004> Added!!

<OSM> Enter CS for MD5..

<OSM> Check MD5.. Do not unplug the cable..

<OSM> Please wait..

<OSM> Checking MD5 finished Sucessfully..

<OSM> Leave CS..

<ID:0/004> Odin v.3 engine (ID:4)..

<ID:0/004> One Click Downloader Mode

<ID:0/004> File analysis..

<ID:0/004> SetupConnection..

<ID:0/004> Initialzation..

<ID:0/004> Set PIT file..

<ID:0/004> DO NOT TURN OFF TARGET!!

<ID:0/004> Get PIT for mapping..

<ID:0/004> Firmware update start..

<ID:0/004> SingleDownload.

<ID:0/004> sbl1.mbn

<ID:0/004> NAND Write Start!!

<ID:0/004> sbl2.mbn

<ID:0/004> sbl3.mbn

<ID:0/004> rpm.mbn

<ID:0/004> aboot.mbn

<ID:0/004> tz.mbn

<ID:0/004> boot.img

<ID:0/004> recovery.img

<ID:0/004> persdata.img.ext4

<ID:0/004> system.img.ext4

<ID:0/004> modem.bin

<ID:0/004> Transmission Complete..

<ID:0/004> Now Writing.. Please wait about 2 minutes

<ID:0/004> Receive Response from boot-loader

<ID:0/004> NON-HLOS.bin

<ID:0/004> Transmission Complete..

<ID:0/004> Now Writing.. Please wait about 2 minutes

<ID:0/004> Receive Response from boot-loader

<ID:0/004> cache.img.ext4

<ID:0/004> RQT_CLOSE !!

<ID:0/004> RES OK !!

<ID:0/004> Removed!!

<ID:0/004> Completed..

<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 1 / failed 0)

<ID:0/003> Added!!

<ID:0/003> Removed!!
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] fegarciaii:
Yep, works great! Haven't tried root yet.. just glad to be off of MF1!
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] joshuadjohnson22:
have any of you tried to ODIN back to MF1 just to see if it will let you?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] dave5777:
It's running let you know in 5 minutes. I wasn't to crazy about the messed up screen shots.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] fegarciaii:
Yea, I have the messed up screen shots too of current list of apps... strange...
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] dave5777:
Yes you can go back to MF1 without issue :)
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] :
As far as looks of tw has anyone noticed any differences and is there any lag?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] yankeesfan714:
Haha I used to leave work when jailbreak tools were released.

GT-i9295(i537) running SafeStrap
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] joshuadjohnson22:
sweet! I guess they didn't feel the need to block it because we didn't have loki.

So talk to me about rooting and SS
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] yankeesfan714:
Has anyone attempted rooting this build?

GT-i9295(i537) running SafeStrap
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] dave5777:
Ok back to 4.3 to test it out. :)
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] yankeesfan714:
When you do can you please verify if root is possible at this point in time?

GT-i9295(i537) running SafeStrap
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] dave5777:
Active Root doesn't work just FC :( good thing you can still go back to MF1 just wondering if this will get AT&T updates?

edit:Knox kills it
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] fegarciaii:
No luck rooting here either using active root...
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] joshuadjohnson22:
I wonder if you install SS before updating if it will still be hiding out? Probably not...

I would look at other 4.3 rooting methods
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] yankeesfan714:
Too bad you guys are having screenshot issues, Im curious to see what it looks like? Normal touchwiz?

GT-i9295(i537) running SafeStrap
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] br0adband:
It's the same old same old, yes, just with Android 4.3 at the core now, nothing else has really changed I suppose (meaning AT&T's typical bloatware - they haven't added anything that I can tell so far, at least that's a good thing).

I suppose once this thing 'settles in' and TRIM has had a chance to happen at least once or twice things should improve, and I believe this is still just a test build of some sort because of the broken stuff (screenshots, stuff I/we haven't even discovered yet). I knew all that going in when I flashed MI2 so, that's that.

So far so good, however. Just redid Antutu and got 23847 and Quadrant was about the same, but it's working.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] yankeesfan714:
Nice. At least we have options.maybe someone can fix these little bugs.

GT-i9295(i537) running SafeStrap
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] dave5777:
Phone call quality is very bad
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] thatbigmoose:
SS isn't a real recovery and installs to the system partition which is overwritten along with many other partitions during an Odin flash. So no, that wouldn't work. But with a (real) recovery it would.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] joshuadjohnson22:
Ok, that is what I thought
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] br0adband:
I use Talkatone + Google Voice so I can't comment on the actual "default" call quality, I never use it myself.

Oh, and that little notification about the microUSB port cover I mentioned earlier? It appears every time you unplug... which is a good thing but it does get repetitious I suppose.

/me really needs to get a wireless charger, and soon... ;)
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] joshuadjohnson22:
It appears we went from a prerelease of 4.2.2 to a pre-release of 4.3
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] fegarciaii:
Yea, I agree on the fact that this looks like a pre-release version of 4.3. And like br0adband said, the little pop-up that you get when you unplug the microUSB cable is getting old fast.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] br0adband:
Yeah, kinda expected that considering but, hey, it's 4.3 so that's a good thing.

Right?

Right? :p
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] renegaderon:
Can't turn on favorite apps or remove help text from lock screen.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] uvbeenzaned:
Hey guess what? That vibrating thing happened to me with 4.2.2 stock ROM before I installed ss with gpe ROM. Interesting. Two times when I would pick the phone up some times.

Sent from my Galaxy S4 Active.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] echonc:
Has anyone tried voodoo root keeper? 4.3 might have new security implementations so older root methods are probably a no go. We need Hashcode or Jcase to check this out.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] my-blue-snog-box:
It's considered a feature in TW ROMs (yeah, it's annoying). I forget what it's called, but it's one of the "Smart"-whatever.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] joshuadjohnson22:
It overrides everything so root keeper will be deleted. It isn't a ota update...

Also how is the camera? The camera was pretty awful in 4.2.2 so I am hoping they worked on it
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] br0adband:
Uhmmm... never had any issues with the camera in the original stock ROM (4.2.2 for me), not sure what you'd consider an "issue" to begin with in that respect. It seems just a tad bit faster to start up and snap shots in this 4.3 build, so far I haven't had any problems/FC at all with anything.

However... with Netflix earlier I was watching an episode of "The West Wing" (my fave show evarrrr...) and paused it, then brought down the notification bar to increase the brightness a bit and that's when all hell broke loose: the app froze, the video portion being displayed on the screen went "green screen" on me, and the whole device froze up for like a solid 30-40 seconds or so then it did that catch-up thing where it tries to respond to the buttons or taps you made while it was frozen all at the same time.

Ended up rebooting (Netflix didn't FC, it just froze up the whole device), went back to Netflix, reloaded the same video from the same time point and tried it again and the second time around it didn't freeze up or crash or anything - the first time when all hell broke loose I had just installed the app and it was the first run, maybe that had something to do with it, I don't know. But I've started/stopped several other videos so far and switched between them and no freezes or lockups have happened again so, at least that's working fine now.

Antutu scores are still a wee bit low but it did get about 24750 earlier, Quadrant stays solid between 10-11K each time so that's good enough. Battery life is a bit down from my usage; on the 4.22 stock ROM I could use it for an hour or so (screen on, Wi-Fi, streaming audio, etc) before it would get from 100% to about 90% or so based on my usage. On this 4.3 it'll get into the upper 80s in 25-30 minutes with the same kind of usage. Not that big of a deal for me I suppose since I have 3 batteries total, 2 of them kept topped off and the 3rd in usage.

Again, so far so good. I haven't mucked with an attempt to root it because that's already been tested by others, nor will I even dare attempt to mess with Safestrap at all. But it's nice to know I could toss MF1 on here if it becomes a necessity, definitely.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] greeneyez15o:
Anyone try the framaroot.apk to root ?

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Spoke to someone from at&t n was told official 4.3 update will b released in october.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] br0adband:
Like you just called in randomly and asked and someone working for AT& confirmed this or stated it on the call? Seriously? Or was this info handed down from a friend through a friend by a friend for a friend or something like that? :p
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] popfan:
Yea, I might believe it, if it came from Designgears, but other than that - you better show you have a connection to Samsung
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] greeneyez15o:
Called att because I needed the unlock code. Asked about update att representative has the s4active as their phone too, and told me about the ota update being sent out in Oct.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] Devo7v:
I'm going to go out on a limb and assume that this came from somebody at Samsung because it doesn't have any of the AT&T bloat. That said, has anybody checked to see if the bootloader is unlocked? I'm not sure if that's even possible, but maybe AT&T is the one who is locking it down. Just a thought.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] br0adband:
Are you sure you're running the same MI2 ROM that the rest of us are, 'cause when it first booted up I had to go through the exact same steps to get it set up meaning the Samsung account crap (skipped), the AT&T "locker" crap (skipped), and I damned sure see all the AT&T apps that were there with the MF3 stock ROM on mine, every last one of 'em. ;)

AT&T DriveMode

AT&T FamilyMap

AT&T Locker

AT&T Navigator

AT&T Smart Wi-Fi

ChatOn

MobileTV

POLARIS Office 5

S Health

S Memo

S Translator

S Voice

Samsung Apps

Samsung Hub

Samsung Link

TripAdvisor

WatchON (I actually do use that for controlling my TV, though)

YP

and the rest of it... it's all in there just like with the MF1/MF2/MF3 builds so, not sure what ROM you're running on yours but the MI2 is definitely an AT&T leak. ;)
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] Devo7v:
That's my fault, I haven't actually flashed it, but I thought I read earlier that the AT&T bloat wasn't there. Since that's not the case I feel like a fool. Move along people, nothing to see here.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] :
I know that I shouldn't ask this because it would of been posted already but I have to ask. Has anyone had any success at root? All of the methods that I have tried have failed miserably.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] br0adband:
From all reports including yours, there is no compatible or functional tool to root this MI2 pre-release (now I'm still guessing it's pre-release like MF1 is/was) build. Maybe someone will put some effort into it, or maybe not, we'll see I suppose.

I can live without it for the time being, but yes it would be nice to get a functional rooting tool at some point, sure.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] AndroidState:
Making a ROM

I will make a rom and flash through SS.

-TransformixS4

Edit: Having a problem extracting the exe. It will take some time...
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] my-blue-snog-box:
That would be awesome.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] AndroidState:
Test Please

Anyone want to test?

I can upload it.

In DSixda I added Root, Hopefully going to work...

-TransformixS4
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] br0adband:
It's posted in a text format in the very first post in this thread but here's mine just in case...
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] br0adband:
I'd have to go back to MF1 and install Safestrap/etc, perhaps someone else already has a GS4A I537 ready to go. If nobody else offers then I can do it, sure. If you want to PM me a link or whatever go for it.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] AndroidState:
Testing!

Im flashing right.... NOW

Edit: Passed the SS active then black screen with blue light ...

Waiting...

Edit 2: Didn't work... Removed root and busybox.

Going to flash soon...
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] br0adband:
Ok, I'm now on MF1 for the first time, rooted, Safestrap installed, etc so if you care to post the 4.3 build for testing I'm game (meaning your TWRP flashable version). Don't really care much about the root aspect so if you have one that's "clean" meaning it's just a straight One-Click-to-flashable-zip that works for me for the time being.

/me sure hopes at some point that if AT&T does do an OTA of some kind for 4.3 that we'll be able to make some use of it on these pre-release builds that don't currently update... :eek:
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] AndroidState:
Prefer?

Do you prefer Dropbox/Mega/Google Drive?

Also my internet company are liars So instead of 100mb download and 2mb upload they give me 20mb download and 200kb upload.

Also in my religion from friday at like 7:00PM I cant go on the PC and Phones for 25 hours.

Also the ROM is extracted from odin one click that I made flashable...
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] br0adband:
Doesn't really matter to me I suppose (150Mbps download/20Mbps upload here, sorry :D). Drop it on Google Drive if you can, if not that then Mega, but Dropbox I have no real use for (and it takes you longer to upload it as well; Google Drive lets me upload at my max upload speed so it should be better for you as well).

No hurry, I can wait, going out to breakfast with my Wife here in a few anyway, no worries.

EDIT: the "after breakfast" wrap-up...

Was thinking about this at breakfast (go figure) and thought "You know, we tried that 4.3 ROM that's available (meaning the CM10.2 one posted by LeJay) and we go nowhere because even with Safestrap in place we're pulling and initializing the 4.2.2 kernel on the device so it's crapping out because the ROM itself is trying to utilize the 4.3 kernel... it's not going to work."

Now, I might be wrong there but somehow I think I'm pretty much accurate: there is a chance, albeit a small one, that if Hashcode is able to get Safestrap working on 4.3 (which is highly doubtful nowadays considering Knox and all the other crap - not just the still locked bootloader) then perhaps, maybe perhaps we could do this Safestrap to 4.3 but, I'm not very hopeful of it.

And by that I mean Safestrap functional on the MI2 4.3 ROM which might then be capable of loading up the CM10.2 ROM from LeJay.

Honestly I wish I had spent a lot more time learning to create ROMs/etc than just installing the work of others, but at this point I seriously doubt that I'd be able to do anything any better than the other far more talented devs around here are capable of and producing.

Ah, well, was nice to think about. I may flash the MI2 back on here in a bit since I understand it's possible, might as well find out for sure for myself. ;)

(but then again, with this 4.2.2 working so well at the moment with Antutu scores in the 27K+ range where they should be and Quadrant at nearly 13K, AND with working screenshots again I may just leave it be for a while...)
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] joshuadjohnson22:
I have a question. SS works with current kernel which is 4.2.2 how will you make a 4.3 rom that will be able to run on the 4.2.2 kernel? perhaps that is the issue?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] dave5777:
This is how http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kexec

That's what cm 10.2 uses on the RAZR
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] popfan:
Would make sense since I think that we need kernel changes every upgrade this has some kernel change that need to be made.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] AndroidState:
Link

Here is the GDrive link:

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B4CJVCuQgMlMeEJ6TlRMVmdPNHM/edit?usp=sharing
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] ShimaMiku:
[MENTION=2348906]designgears[/MENTION] Thank you for helping get the releases of MF1 and MI2 for the S4A for use with Odin. Is there some way we could also get a Odin method for MF3 as well? (I don't know any of the restrictions preventing this, so excuse my ignorance).
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] yankeesfan714:
Hey [MENTION=907867]br0adband[/MENTION] or anyone else. Has anyone tried this root method on the MI2 build?

http://www.redmondpie.com/kingo-and...evices/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

GT-i9295(i537) running SafeStrap
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] yankeesfan714:
I will try it if nobody has by the time I get out of work tonight.

GT-i9295(i537) running SafeStrap
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] br0adband:
No, the "Kingo Root" thing doesn't work, and yes I'm back on MI2 4.3 at the moment, reflashed it earlier today. Apparently the Kingo Root thing is looking for a specific file to hack/crack/modify/whatever and it doesn't exist on the I537 GS4A running this 4.3 prerelease - I'm not going to go back to 4.2.2 or whatever for the present time so perhaps someone else has some luck with it. It also triggers Knox because you then get the notification that something is trying to access/alter system so no go whatsoever. I'm suspecting this pre-release 4.3 ROM may have us locked out of potential updates as well - the Security Updates thing won't function at all (was going to go ahead and see what happens by allowing it but it fails to connect to the "server" constantly regardless of being on Wi-Fi or cellular.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] popfan:
Nope, failed
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] yankeesfan714:
That's too bad man.

So that build isn't too buggy then? Screenshots don't worry you that much then huh?

GT-i9295(i537) running SafeStrap
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] fegarciaii:
I lost some App Icons running MI2. Had to delete the app from the current page and re-copy it from the App repository. There were some other strange things i noticed with other programs...not sure if it was 4.3, or if it was because the build is pre-release. I'm back to MF1.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] joshuadjohnson22:
my advice would be to keep your eyes here once root is found for the AT&T Note 3 there is a good chance it will work with this new rom. 4.3 and all
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] JEZZEJAMEZ:
X2 :thumbup:

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I537 using Xparent BlueTapatalk 2
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] greeneyez15o:
Anyone try framaroot apk to root. Have to play around with the app a little .
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] br0adband:
So, are you saying that yes it works but you have to "play around with the app a little" or are you saying no it doesn't work but that playing around with it might yield some positive results, eh? :p
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] greeneyez15o:
B. Thats my final answer :) I was reading thats how they got it to work on the s3
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] zeb crs:
Does this work on european i9295 or only I537 AT&T ?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] br0adband:
The build number provides the answer: JSS15J.I537UCUBMI2

Of course, it's entirely possible that it could function on another GS4A sure, but there are already ROMs available for the I9295 that are similar (MH2, iirc).

Also, this is a pre-release ROM, not an official one and hence it has issues, the most glaring and obvious one is that the screenshot function is pooched (the screenshots are just totally mucked up as mentioned earlier in the thread).