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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] answaiksvoltage:
Making progress... flashed the modem.bin in odin and got the mf9 baseband back... and STILL NO SOUND..
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] dschachm:
Crawrj, did you try Odin to restore stock recovery? Then maybe you can flash an update.zip for mf9?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Jellybeanteeker:
Same problem happened to me. I fixed it sorta. Just no wifi ._. But I used odin and I was in this mode everytime I turned my phone it took me to some kind of download mode but it said recover in kies or something. But and I tried flashing stock mdc and mf9 and no luck but afterwards in odin I used the cf root thing and it actually went to Galaxy s4 logo and install su. Afterwards I used odin again to install twrp 2.6.3.0 and I was able to restore mf9. But the only thing is it stays on the s4 logo saying something of the kernel on the top left corner for like 1-2 minutes and then it boots. Give it a try.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] jasonlisowski1:
Was just on the Sprint note 3 forums and it appears that they have had similar issues with knox. Maybe contacting some of those devs may help. Thanks for all your hard work Sac, Cnexus and everyone else working on this nightmare update.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Jellybeanteeker:
Kies can't detect my s4 ._. No matter what I wonder why 0.0
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] likearaptor:
What I think is happening is in Selinux you have a different set of file permissions that are specific to Selinux, I work on Linux web server and if you try to copy files to be a website, or install an app manually Selinux will refuse to serve up a web file. You don't know how many hours I tried to troubleshoot the darn server on why it wouldn't load a perl script. I wonder if Samsung has certain file contexts in the /system and only certain recoveries might get those extra settings? I was able to get a backup from omariscal1019 with Philz recovery and I got my phone back to MJA :laugh:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Jellybeanteeker:
Help me out please
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] answaiksvoltage:
Can you share that over here by chance? Sure would be nice to be able to make calls again on my semi-brick.. either google drive or drop box would do so i can download tomorrow at work..

Thanks!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] churchey360:
Anyone try this? http://phandroid.com/2013/10/31/download-and-install-the-new-google-experience-launcher/
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] GalaxyBlaze7438:
If there is a way to get back on MJA I would love to have information on how or someone to walk me thought it I like touch wiz over aosp and untill a tar file pops up I'm stuck any info is greatly appreciated
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] likearaptor:
I think this will help out a lot of you, I posted a new thread with more details:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=46995798

omariscal1019 should get all the credit, he was the one who made the backup in the first place and tested a restore from it.

I just put up more details/instructions on how to do the restore (this was how I did it and there might be a more efficient way to flash both system and boot at the same time, just let me know)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] joe.stay:
How do I prevent the update from showing up on my phone? I'm stock rooted. MF9
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] GalaxyBlaze7438:
anyone still having problems with booting or root i recomend trying this i did it worked.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] galaxys3man30:
Change ur build props that has MF9 in them to MJA
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] daniel4653:
Next question is going to be "how do I do that' lol
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] galaxys3man30:
I know lol
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] mmark27:
yeah, the WiFi toggle for VZW wasn't really necessary because they (VZW) had this habit of trying to force you into using WiFi and not being able to disable it really. Maybe to save their network? or your data? It was (or is) that way on the S3 too.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] mjs2011:
So it looks like nothing for the Verizon folks today. Hopefully we still get ours on Wednesday.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] jj14:
Eh? Verizon folks should have gotten it today

It must be a staggered rollout (as always)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] mjs2011:
I don't believe anyone has actually received it
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] churchey360:
As long as sprint gets it on the 30th like the rumors have said it would then ill be happy lol :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] MENACE_69:
Yes, yes, yes that make's two of us, happy to know im not the only one with interest in the new modem and the possible improvement it may have on signal/data speeds for our device.

I've also had some recent tower upgrades done in the area that have just been completed as of a week ago. so im itching for sprint to drop this release and someone to post the modem in the forums.

If you see anything pop-up in regards to this please do share and I'll do the same.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] daniel4653:
I would laugh if we get our updates on the 30th before Verizon since so far no one has received a single ota on Verizon.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Majin101:
They just getting it now
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] GiantJay:
Yep, Verizon phones don't have wifi toggles but they do have a notification that is always in the pull down asking about turning on WiFi. Never understood it, but Verizon and any kind of software I usually don't understand, or hardware for that matter.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] mjs2011:
Great news! Talk about trolling. Everyone for it at midnight the very next day.

Looks like we're on board for tomorrow then.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] jj14:
Yep - they made it in the nick of time!

http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/1...now-lists-android-4-3-ota-update-i545vruemj7/

Wonder how bad they locked up the Verizon version. Hopefully, it will be easily rootable for the Sprint version (as it has been in the past releases). Gotta wait patiently for a rooted version from the awesome developers here!

Patience.... (keep telling myself)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] garwynn:
Heads up! Source dropped - incoming OTA!

Version is MJA.

Would be surprised if it's today - probably tomorrow since Sprint didn't post the update notice this morning.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] neudof:
Where is it?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] mjs2011:
Nice! Thanks for the info Garwin! :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] imneveral0ne:
http://opensource.samsung.com/reception/receptionSub.do?method=search&searchValue=SPH-L720

852mb seems on the large side lol.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] ChadH42:
I wonder what the JU stands for in the model name??
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] motive:
January Update? Jk.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] crawrj:
J = Month. 10th letter of the alphabet so October. U = Day. 21st letter of the alphabet so 21. Built October 21st.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] mjs2011:
Will I have to Odin back to EL29 before accepting the OTA? ;)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] buzzwyzr:
Sure am. Works great. :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] kevinsturf:
I'm loving it too! I also got the new google search to say okay Google from anywhere but it FCs on me when trying to view detailed info from the cards.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] mjs2011:
Do you all have to be rooted to get the Google now and launcher to work like that?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] weightlifter63:
Note 3 reception

I am thinking of grabbing a note3 as well. Would be real curious to know about REAL reception differences between the S4 and Note3 I get 1 bar in my house, and need at least that.

I have tried all the radios on the S4, including this update which of course now set my knox flag. :eek:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] jazz995756:
Have you or anyone else that is stuck tried a USB jig? It worked for me when mine was stuck
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] crawrj:
Yeah that was working during testing but once it locked up it stopped working. I have tried everything. I left the battery out all night and tried again this morning but nothing. So frustrating. If I didn't have a work phone I would really be pissed, even more than I am now.

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The jig only puts you into download mode, which is the only thing I can get into. I need to be able to get to recovery but nothing works.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] jazz995756:
Deleted.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] crawrj:
OK I am officially done messing with it for a while. This is what I found out. My issue is in aboot.mbn. I was able to get all of the MF9 tar to install except the bootloader, which isn't new since that is where Knox resides. So until someone figures out a way around the bootloader or the official tar for MJA is released I am SOL.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] cruise350:
Can't get MJA to root, I have run cf autoroot several times now, it completes and says it worked. But then when android boots up there is no supersu. I started with a clean install of mf9 that I rooted and restored all my tb apps and data. I then ran triangle away and set supersu pro to maintain root after OTA. I ran the MJA update file through stock recovery and everything went great. I was on MJA all my apps and data were preserved and supersu was still in the app drawer. But it gave me a message that the binaries weren't installed and I would have to re-root. So I ran cf autoroot which of course tripped the knox warranty flag but when the phone rebooted after running cf autoroot supersu was no longer in the app drawer. I've tried running cf autoroot several more times and after it completes no supersu and no root. Is there any other way to root? Can I odin twrp to the phone and then install supersu through recovery? I really want to get the hot spot mod working again. Any help is appreciated.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] garwynn:
I've got inquiries out to a few sources trying to get the MJA tar. Doubt you're going to be able to get MF9 completely back on even if you try.

FWIW here's my thoughts on this. If you don't want 4.3 and all the restrictions that come with TW 4.3... don't flash it!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] maxpower7:
Just install SuperSU from the Play Store and you should be good to go.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] cruise350:
Thanks, I've run cf autoroot several times and no luck. So I tried it again, and then reinstalled supersu from the play store and it stuck this time. I am now rooted on MJA.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] crawrj:
OK so I lied. I tried one last thing and I am finally on my way back! OMG I can't believe it. The solution, at least getting it past the lockout, was to take all of the firmware out of the update.zip, put them in a tar and Odin them. That got me into recovery. I am downloading the backup from Philz and am running the OTA update now. If the OTA fails I will try the restore method. But now that I have recovery again I am sure it will come back!

Edit: OK I am booting but now don't have any sound :( Going to try the restore method just to see.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] aypanthony:
Wow...good to hear you are back in the mix.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] likearaptor:
Good luck!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] maxpower7:
I hope it works out for you. You're an asset to the community.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] likearaptor:
I wonder what partition/setting is causing the sound issues some are reporting. You would think just the boot (kernel) and system partitions would be the ones needing to be restored. But it seems like there is something else we are missing
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] mmark27:
Are other folks seeing issues with Roaming Settings? At first I was like "why this modem looks better, I don't seem to be roaming as much in some areas", then I come to realize that the Roaming Settings (for me) have been randomly resetting themselves to "Home Network" instead of Automatic. Then it will reset the roaming guard. But you won't see the roaming guard notification when its set to Automatic, so its impossible to know when its changed. Just curious if this seen by others as well.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] aagiants:
I definitely would have thrown my phone against something hard by now- Glad to hear you're back.

I know there was at least one other person with audio loss as well. I'm sure things will progress much faster around this issue now that you're on it ;)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] n660623x:
Anyone still not get the ota update? Completely stock here in all aspects and no update. Disappointed
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] daniel4653:
I'm still amazed that we still don't have a fully rooted MJA zip up. Big thanks to CNexus, Sacs, & others involved in figuring it out for us.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] leaderbuilder:
Well that's something!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] maxpower7:
After all the issues people are having with the update, I'm kind of amazed that you still want it :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] ROMANTiC KiD:
I did the exact same thing really lol to be honest i dont really use root much just to debloat a rom other than thats just it probably also themes and a few mods but ehh. I just upgraded because im planning gettin my gear this sunday and just play around with that for the time being a properly root method and restore method is complete here.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Majin101:
lucky for me no issues :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] blarg:
has anyone tried De La Vega root on this update yet?

I'm tempted but my employer might be going BYOD so I don't want to blow it...but I WOULD like to keep AdAway and USB OTG.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] aypanthony:
I have not received an official OTA notifications yet. I am going to stick with MF9 until some of Knox stuff is figured out.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] churchey360:
You can download it manually online instead of waiting for it that's what I did lol.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] likearaptor:
Thats what I did, then I rebooted into the stock recovery and selected the flash from sideload. Then on my computer (with the phone connected) I ran adb sideload nameofzipfile.zip and it copied it over and installed it without issues.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] neudof:
I flashed the ma update from rooted stock mf9 with superSU pro and the with the keep root options checked.

Now I appear to have lost root, super su is a system app and I cannot install it. When I open su it cannot find the binaries. Can I side load them or is root truly lost?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] churchey360:
I didn't use a computer I just moved it to my SD card and flashed it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] cruise350:
You will have to run cf autoroot and then probably download supersu from the play store again . I had to run cf autoroot several times before it would stick. I also did exactly what you did and root was gone after the update.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] neudof:
That's what I figured..

Going to wait a while and see if we can get root without tripping knox....
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] guitardoc64:
They have root without tripping Knox on the Note 3 so I have hope. I'm still on MF9 and holding after seeing all of the problems. It seems to be getting worse with each update with all the Knox bs.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] ROMANTiC KiD:
Anybody tried to check if mja is the newest firmware in kies?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] chicagoaan:
My phone seems to have good battery life. It's having hot flashes too. Moments of heating up. Overall it's sorta growing on me.

Stock MJA Rooted
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] hunterbeav:
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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] ChefEAM:
I am on MJA, and Kies still says the current firmware version is not supported for upgrade in kies
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] ROMANTiC KiD:
I was asking because verizon already had their 4.3 update on kies which has been 3 days since they got their update maybe hopefully we will get ours by tomorrow since it will be the third day.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] random45:
i tried using that method, and Knox kept denying the app any permission.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] galaxys3man30:
Go to settings/security and unchecked verify apps
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] galaxys3man30:
Just leave this here
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] random45:
sorry for not being more clear.. the app is actually not an android app. its a windows app that connects via ADB. The website says it its not open source b/c they dont want their hack to be patched, but it doesnt seem to work on the s4.

this is the message you get:

maybe if we find a way to get a relaxed security policy on their we will be alright
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] churchey360:
Go to your phones settings then go over to more and click security and check the box next to unknown sources.

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Did you root and trigger KNOX to get a custom kernel?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] galaxys3man30:
Unfortunately yea I did buddy
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] cj10488:
So my last try here. If this doesnt work than I can pretty much assure that without the new bootloader the 4.3 rom will not load.

My steps.

Stock rooted MF9 TW rom with MF9 bootloader.

Install update (modified script) to remove the integrity checks and bootloader otherwise completely stock.

Flash KT TW 4.3 Kernel in twrp.

Hopefully all will boot. Thus far I have been successful in restoring. I doubt that this will work and is the last resort. if this works than we need to take the stock 4.3 kernel and look for what is forcing the bootloader check and thus stopping the boot. Will report back shortly.

James
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] cj10488:
Nope did not work. Tried stock update no bootloader. KT 4.3 kernel 4.3 modem. Still would not boot. Not looking good at all.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] smizak:
This is dire...... With the news of Kit-Kat verifying hashs on every system read and all of this Knox BS, it's a sad morning
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] evo-t:
So out of all the problems everyone is having. It is due to trying to downgrade and the use of TB? I am still stock MJA and am missing my tether now. I have the new hot spot downloaded. As for the cf auto root is it the same as what we used for MF9 or a different file, also what recovery? Same procedure as get "goo manager" for twrp, or the philz recovery?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] cruise350:
Yes, same cf autoroot. You may have to repeat the process several times before it works. In my case, after running cf autoroot several times with no supersu appearing in the app drawer I downloaded it from the play store and it updated binaries and was good to go. So if you run cf autoroot and don't see supersu in the app drawer, try downloading it and you may be good with one try.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] evo-t:
I tried the one time.. no fails so I booted up, no SU, so I went to the playstore and downloaded it. Won't update binaries. So I guess back to ODIN I go haha. What recovery are you using by the way?

Also, I can't even get this mother to root. How are the binaries updated? I can't even get anywhere in the app to update them.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] carvation:
Just got the ota notification last night. I dont want to install . I need my hotspot right now. Im stock rooted no mods. If I take this update and lose root will I be able to cf autoroot to gain root, or will this not work and set off knox. And will I be able to get the hotspot back using the same method as mf9?

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S®4
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] joe.stay:
lol. So Yeah...How do I do that?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] galaxys3man30:
Download rom tool box or a file explore (root) and go to the build props and edit any lines that have MF9 in the build prop lines I think there is 5 or 6 of them there usually right at the top and change the MF9 to MJA and save when ur done and reboot and profit no more update popping up
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] crawrj:
I did the update and used cf auto. It will trip the Knox counter. Some people have had success by installing SuperSU Pro and enabling root survival. After the OTA they said that they kept root and the Knox counter didn't trip. Unfortunately I didn't think about that before I dove in head first. The hot spot has been updated to MJA so once you are updated you would flash MJA Odexed from custom recovery.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] chicagoaan:
Whats the big deal with tripping the knox counter? Its been confirmed that Sprint returns or fixes will honor fixing or replacing the phone even with the knox counter at 0x1. As long as you have insurance.

0x1 only voids the Samsung warranty which you only had for a year if you registered the phone.

Knox can only be used or is only useful if your company adds the knox system to their enterprise which is going to be years down the road iuam. Just curious.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] ReggieTee:
I'm still stock rooted on MF9? Looking like we won't be getting flashable rooted file? If it's going to be a pain to flash stuff due to Knox, i'll be selling the S4 and getting a Nexus 5. If i wanted a locked down phone i'd have an iFruit.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] lanewhit:
Thanks for this post. I was a little stressed since I tripped knox on my wife's phone but you are right. I have returned two HTC rooted phones on insurance with no problems.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] garwynn:
Actually Airwatch apparently can take advantage of it. I offered our pic to enroll my device and see what happens if I do "nefarious" things like root :) May happen soon.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] chris-allen:
My problem is i cant get root..i have tried cf-autoroot several times but it never installs superuser..i can dl it from the market but when it tried to gain root it gives me the failed notice...sux ass
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] cruise350:
Try run cf autoroot another time and then once it boots up, install supersu from the play store. It should install and ask you to install the binaries. Select the normal way not the recovery method. Should be good to go after that. It took my about 5 times of running cf autoroot and downloading from the play store but it eventually took. I then installed goomanager and it installed twrp without a problem. Did a full nandroid and then installed the hotspot mod for MJA odexed. Phone is running great! Set up the shortcut to modify PRL and it works. The only thing I haven't been able to do is run the mod to add the hotspot button to the quicktabs in the notification menu.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] lanewhit:
Un install supersu, reboot, re install supersu from the market, reboot and hopefully one you open supersu, it will update the binaries. It took me 4 or 5 attempts but I'm happily rooted and all is working well on the S4
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] mikejones13:
So I'm gonna try to see if I can get the knox reset tool from either Samsung or Soti MobiControl. Seeing as I'm working very close with the directors for Samsung North America mobile, desktop and gaming division. I'm gonna throw a bone out to them and see what I can get from them. At my job I'm the building admin for Soti MobiControl I can enroll, wipe and control all 700 of our Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1's which come with knox. And knowing I can control the full management of the Samsung knox containment and I can ensure security of data by utilizing knox os level containerization technology... lol what ever that means. But I'm gonna get a hold of some contacts today and see what I can get. Just thinking out loud but if I am the one who controls the devices I should be able to reset the knox counter if some employee or student trips it. ......
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] guitardoc64:
Thanks that would be awesome!