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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] maxpower7:
Alright, so I was able to successfully update to MJA. I tried to root via CF auto root, and everything flashed okay (I have Super SU on the phone), but root doesn't actually work. I can't use Titanium, and Root Checker says it's not rooted. Any ideas?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] crawrj:
Try another reboot if you haven't already.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] xchampx13:
same here, I am staying on CM w/ MF9 and will update the modem when possible most likely.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] maxpower7:
No dice.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] ricketkm:
I can't wait to get home so I can unroot and go back to stock, is this a good link for MF9 TAR. ?

http://premium.caribe.net/~makpr/Odin%20Firmwares/MF9/
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] mjs2011:
Now I'm really worried because I did the same exact thing a couple days ago. Have you been able to resolve it?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] churchey360:
Im thinking about rooting my stock mf9 rom and using triangle away then unroot before doing the update
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] mjs2011:
Anyone else with broken wifi? What was your process?

This just seems odd because it seems like I read stories of people who were rooted and took the OTA and had no problem with Wifi.

Make me wonder if I need to root quickly and download the Triangle Away app and get rid of that thing first before taking this.

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Yeah, you read my mind. I bet that's what is causing the wifi issue. I know I have the trianle, so I think I'm going to take care of that and then Odin back to unroot.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] MENACE_69:
Horror stories... lmfao!!! Yup, I'm doing the same bro. I'm gunna hold off on 4.3 till all the kinks have been ironed out and will flash it then out of curiosity. But I'm pretty happy with my setup as is.

I'm also patiently waiting for someone to drop that modem in the forums. Can't wait to see what kind of improvement it brings to my device with all these recent tower upgrades in my area. I posted a link to a thread that it's probably gunna hit first a few pages back fyi.

~>Sac's rom,KToonz kern,Okj,

Gsf Mod, The Shop's Custom Settings<~
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] crawrj:
Make sure you have the latest version. Try to Odin it again.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] churchey360:
Is the download 537.68MB? For some reason i thought i was only downloading one but it completed and theres another download that is the same update and its on 72%
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] mjs2011:
I guess it may be a blessing in disguise that I haven't received the OTA because I probably would have been stuck with no wifi.

To those who have broken wifi, did you try downloading the update zip and flashing it that way?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] smccall:
Has anyone tried cf auto root its supposedly been confirmed working on 4.3 but will trip the flash count. Was thinking could be wrong but wondering if triangle away would work.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] M3wThr33:
Really? So if I'm on a rooted MF9 with some random things flashed (PSM certs + tethering mod), and I don't have the triangle, I'm safe to just install the OTA as it is? Bizarre.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] mjs2011:
That's what it looks like.

There was a similar issue back in the day when trying to update to MDL. Even if you were unrooted, if your system and binary said "Custom" and/or you had the triangle, it wouldn't fully update you and your wifi would be borked.

Unfortunately with this update, there's no way to get back (can't flash MF9), so I have no clue how those with borked wifi right now can resolve the issue.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] crawrj:
My wifi is working and I have beat the hell out of the phone trying to recover from that failed restore.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] churchey360:
The people that used the ota survival and was rooted before they updated to 4.3 also used triangle away before updating.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] prguzman1978:
Any 4.3 update zips in the works?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] maxpower7:
Hmmmm.... the most recent version I can find is 1.30. Is that correct?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] ROMANTiC KiD:
Look a couple of pages back.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] mjs2011:
Do you know if you had the triangle? I really think that's what's killing wifi.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] skyyrocket:
You can back to MF9 for people that have the broken wifi issue. The reason being its not updating the boot loader which causes the wifi to break.... To fix wifi you need a custom recovery and go to my 4.3 alpha build and find and use sacs fix see if that works

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2473176
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] CNexus:
You can't work around an efuse, which is basically a tiny hardware component getting broken beyond repair inside the phone that can then be used as a flag.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] mjs2011:
So do we know if Verizon received their OTA? I think they were supposed to get it today, right?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] mmark27:
Well, put it this way. I'm certain they're still here as I've seen Garwynn and Omar on the forums....however, they haven't had a leak for a long time so either their source has dried up, Sprint/Samsung has shored up their leaks or they have other interests. I'm not sure they own a S4 for development either, I know they were trying to secure funds for one a while back.

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Looks like it might be inbound "starting today":

http://www.engadget.com/2013/10/28/samsung-galaxy-gear-update/
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Son Rise:
I got a system update on my notifications? 4.3 maybe? I didn't download it yat
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] mjs2011:
Oooh....and you're currently on stock MF9?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] mmark27:
Screen shot or it didn't happen:)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] mjs2011:
Yeah, what happens if you click on it? What does it say?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] mmark27:
Well, VZW is rolling:

http://www.samsung.com/us/support/faq/FAQ00053691/63340/SCH-I545ZKAVZW?CID=AFL-hq-mul-0813-11000170

So that means we should see it Wednesday!!!! or in the weeks thereafter with this slow roll.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] mjs2011:
Nice! Glad to see it will hopefully be on time!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] churchey360:
What does "band 4 enable" mean in the update?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] JoeFCaputo113:
Screenshot brotha?!!? How big is it and what does the description say? :fingers-crossed: :good:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] mmark27:
That's for VZW to use their other area of spectrum. They've had it dormant in their S4s, but they're pushing it now in some markets so this will activate it for them. That will not be in our update.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] churchey360:
Yeah i didnt think it was for sprint but what is the tri band sprint is coming out with is that for us or is it just a brand new s4?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] mjs2011:
I think what I'm looking forward to the most is a new modem. With all the 4g upgrades in my area, I wonder if I'll see a difference.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] mmark27:
If the rumored "new" S4 comes out (has been through FCC OET), this will have the bands needed. Our phone will never be able to see LTE on 800 or 2600. We will and can already see voice on 800 though, so that's a bonus, right guys?????? I'm going to be super depressed if the S4+triband actually comes out. sad panda.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] ChadH42:
Verizon just posted their 4.3 OTA upgrade.

http://go.redirectingat.com/?id=234...e&xcreo=0&sref=http://www.androidcentral.com/
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] mjs2011:
Weird that they say they added quick wifi on/off toggle. Did the Verizon S4 seriously not already have that?

Man, I hope some day they add the Torch toggle to the notification bar.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] JoeFCaputo113:
Yes hahahaaa... my girl has the Verizon S4 and she doesn't have the WiFi toggle, I was like wtf lol.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] mjs2011:
Now that's crazy! I can't imagine just getting that in an update now!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] JoeFCaputo113:
Well someone in the Verizon forums had a workaround for it... http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2302366
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] leaderbuilder:
I think what we really need is the full (not update) system .tar that includes the whole shebang. That way it can really be 'torn apart'.

Wish I could do more but I'm down to my one and only phone I need for business.

I'm still hopeful that something will work.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] oscarthegrouch:
Judging previous behavior, the update or full flash will stop triangle away from working. It'll be a few weeks or maybe longer until it's updated to work and reset everything if it even can.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] churchey360:
Does anyone know how large the update is?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] crawrj:
I didn't. But I don't see that breaking wifi. Seems more likely that the firmware isn't updating properly.

I'll post the stock Kernel once I get home. Driving now. See if flashing that fixes it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] prguzman1978:
Thanks! Checked out QBKING he always comes through as well...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] chicagoaan:
Finally got OTA. after what felt like years. Looks like i'll be staying this way until devs iron out some things. So far so good. No photosphere here either. Maybe thats a 4.4 thing?

Next stop... Hangouts
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] crawrj:
I don't remember a version. I just downloaded from his site.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] kevinsturf:
Its ~537mb
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] lanewhit:
Loaded 4.3 but lost root

Well, I did my best to keep root. I upgraded to SuperSU pro and tried to keep root that way. Update went fine as Im now on 4.3 MJA but when I go to CF Auto root, it says it worked but when I get into the apps, SuperSU is not installed. I tried to reinstall from the market but still no root. And yes, my know was triggered. Bummer. Any ideas?

update: after trying CF Auto root and uninstalling and reinstalling SuperSU, I have root again. Very strange, not sure what I did. The only negative is that i tripped the knox counter.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Alpine-:
No way!? That seems too easy. I am actually WAY behind in flashing and updating due to being busy and just waiting for a rom update that never came (Uknown's ROM Triforce). The result is I'm currently on STOCK MDL (yes NOT MF9) with CF-Auto Root. So I can literally just unroot this install, then accept the OTA and it will be fine. Then I just re-root with CF-Autoroot again?

Interestingly, that brings up another question. Im showing the MF9 update ready to be installed now. When the new one rolls out for me, will it replace that or will the system try to make me take both in chronological order?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] mjs2011:
Do you think custom system and binary could be the culprit?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] chris-allen:
Installed and working fine...cant see amy changes as of yet...so.....how do i get root back now???
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] crawrj:
No because mine says that.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] mjs2011:
Hmmm... Ok guess I'll roll the dice and cross my fingers.

Thanks!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] maxpower7:
I'm good now. Thanks for the help. This must be a long day for you.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] wsoxfan1214:
Stock rooted with the hotspot mod and TWRP recovery.

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I have, according to download mode...

Binary: Custom

System Status: Official

According to Triangle Away:

Binary: Official

System: Official

According to About Device:

Secure boot status type: Samsung

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What's the best/safest way for me to update? I don't really care if I lose root. I never use it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] carvation:
cant lose root right now, my hotspot is precious to me while on the road, will wait for a stock rooted
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] CNexus:
Can someone who took the update pull a system dump for me please?

Hook up phone to PC then

adb pull /system system_dump

Then zip up the system_dump folder and upload so I can get a stock rooted with init.d support and bootanimation.zip support posted. Thanks :good: :good:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] churchey360:
Ok so im completely stock and used triangle away and downloaded the update with the link provided a few pages back so im jw is that the exact same update i should be getting a notification for? I just wanna make sure it is before i update.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] wsoxfan1214:
Would this be flashable through TWRP?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] chris-allen:
Can i root this now that its installed??
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] CNexus:
Yes, it would be a flashable stock rom
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] chicagoaan:
Iv'e noticed a few bugs Like for instance when you install a new app it places the app icon on top of another icon. Me thinks Samsung might be patching/updating this OTA in the weeks to come...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] crawrj:
OK try this stock MJA kernel if you upgraded to MJA and don't have wifi.

md5: 2bf852fbd1bef54a90562b0321951988

url: http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23203820527944134

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No problem. Tell me about it! I spent all day trying to get the stupid phone back in action. A real pain in the ass.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] skyyrocket:
Hmm the fix didnt work but i need a break lol I have a base already but 4.3 has some bugs and looks like it was a rushed build
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] chicagoaan:
Yea i noticed that too. Rush to get the smartwatch going. I'm sure they'll pump out some update/fix, probably wait a few weeks to see what Sam does to address this. Feels a bit chooppy too. Stock MF9 was smoother. :rolleyes:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] weightlifter63:
go backwards?

So I read back and there were comments saying you cant go backwards once flashed. Is this the case? Im all flashed up to 4.3. What about the odin one click will it bring me back or is there no way at this point?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] churchey360:
So i did the update and everything is working perfect for me wifi is fine and 4g is fine no problems at all :)

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Also has 2 new wallpapers
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] mjs2011:
Good news. I didn't have to use Triangle Away. Wifi works just fine for me! Love the new 4G icon and keyboard!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] MENACE_69:
Really! How do they look nice? Would you kindly pull em and post a link? I don't plan on updating to 4.3 anytime soon (till kinks are ironed out). But i am patiently waiting for someone to get a flashable modem tar up in the forums and these new wallpapers would make the wait all the better and less painful :).

~> Sac's rom,KToonz kern,Okj,

Gsf Mod, The Shop's Custom Settings <~
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] mmark27:
I can say that the bluetooth stack is improved. I am finally able to send text messages through my Dodge Durango stereo. Before it could only receive/speak out loud and it would fail to "listen" for my car when I would send one out through the car prompts. This is a nice addition. Still not perfect though as it announces "no number available" when reading texts. Closer though!!!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] galaxys3man30:
We cant make a flashable modem its a patch file not a flashable one your going have to update to 4.3 if you want a new modem
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] maxpower7:
Holy sh*t, I genuinely regret taking this update. WiFi works fine, but restoring apps with TiBu results in a ton of force closes. Basically, my phone will freeze every minute or so for at least 20 seconds at a time, followed by a force close of some random app. TiBu is critical to my setup process, and I'm pretty pissy about this at the moment.

Has anyone tried to install TWRP and flash a rom yet after taking the update (like an AOSP rom, specifically)? Or would it work to restore a Nandroid of MF9? I'm afraid to take the plunge at this point, but at the same time I'm not liking my updated phone.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] churchey360:
There nothing special lol.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] churchey360:
Same as plain blue but with a light effect on it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] churchey360:
The new recovery looks nice tho.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] brniel:
Error

I'm trying to manually update through stock recovery and it's failing with the following error:

Error in /tmp/sideload/package.zip

(Status 7)

What can I do to get around this?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] churchey360:
Did you move it to your sd card and flash it?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] oscarthegrouch:
I wonder if the same feeling would be experienced if we had a full tar.md5? Meaning same rushed, buggy, laggy feeling.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] MENACE_69:
No wayyy dude... :'( wow that's super disappointing. Thanks for being the bearer of bad news galaxys3man geeezee...Nah j/k but that's not cool at all. it's truly a sad day here in Los Angeles because of this. Guess I'm gunna half to see what sac's is brewing up for 4.3 thanks for the heads up.

You sure there's no other way to go about getting this modem without updating to 4.3 ? Lol

~> Sac's rom,KToonz kern,Okj,

Gsf Mod, The Shop's Custom Settings
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] brniel:
Just some more info. I'm stock rooted MF9 and I've tried unrooting and get the same error.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] galaxys3man30:
Nope there no way unless they give us a flashable modem and not a patch file which dont be disappointed buddy they do this anyway like the next patch update they do to fix the bugs and such im sure they will put a flashable modem in there then im sure they did it on the MDL update so I know they will release a flashable modem sooner or later buddy

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Try redownloading it and how are yoy trying to unroot?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] crawrj:
Just an FYI because a few people brought it up. The hotspot mod is updated.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] cj10488:
Can a person not edit the update script and remove the bootloader and the checks at the beginning and update thru twrp? O have done this in the past without issues to the extent of just the beginning checks. I have never tried to remove out the bootloader from the script. Has this been tried? Anyone willing to give it a try? I would but I no longer have a backup phone in case things go south.

James
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] leaderbuilder:
Wow! It works on mja?

Dude you're the man!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] brniel:
I'm unrooting through Supersu.

I've downloaded it 3 time. I actually still have my MF9 update file and it doesn't work either.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] wsoxfan1214:
Thinking I might just leave my phone the way it is with KitKat coming very soon. Will just flash to that when we have a decent ROM of it and just skip 4.3 altogether.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] galaxys3man30:
No one probably will try unless they know what they are doing cuz messing with the bootloader is highly dangerous cuz one screw up and you got a paper weight im sure it will get worked out just needs time there was no leaks to get a jump start on modding to fix alot issues with rooting and others things
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] hunterbeav:
Tried to update my wifes phone...its never been rooted...says software is up to date...any ideas...thanks
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] cj10488:
One is technically not messing with the bootloader only removing it from the script that updates the system. This leaves everything intact but doesn't update the bootloader.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] daniel4653:
Simple, her phone hasn't gotten the update. You have to wait. Or you could download the zip put the update in your sdcard in believe then flash.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] galaxys3man30:
Yeppers your correct buddy just download and put it on her sd card and go into stock recovery amd flash away

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Yea makes sense im sure someone will try to do this buddy
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] hunterbeav:
Thanks....I'm reading the update may not be that great...people having problems...I may wait
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] ram9200:
here is system dump http://d-h.st/efb
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] JrQuesh:
Yes, I used CF Autoroot, to root after I had updated to 4.3. It worked, but did indeed trip the knox counter. 0x1
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] daniel4653:
Its people that are rooted who are having problems
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] CNexus:
THANKS.

Stock rooted rom coming up.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] JrQuesh:
Yes, Use CF's Autoroot to root it. Warning though, it will trip your Knox counter and void your warrenty, but that's not really anything new is it?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] cj10488:
Can someone with the update file post the update script
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] omariscal1019:
So its rootable but cant install mf9 roms right?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] dandan2980:
I get the same error I have downloaded and tried atleast 4 times
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] crawrj:
Yeah it is working and tested on my phone. Connected to my computer.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] SeanK_:
What I did was; Root - Triangle Away - Unroot - Installed all the way to MF9 again- then updated to latest.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] wsoxfan1214:
So that flashable MF9 with no data wipe posted a while back - will that take me back to stock recovery and make the hotspot mod go away too? Seems I need both to update.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] clshores:
So if I understand correctly there is no way to revert back to 4.2.2 after you take the 4.3 plunge?

That in itself would keep me away. Of course the average Joe would never ever go back I guess.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Son Rise:
Im Jealous. Cuz I Dont Have 4G At My Area:(
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] churchey360:
Nova launcher looks pretty nice with the new update.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] CNexus:
To take the update, you need to be on complete stock MF9. The ota does several integrity checks to make sure that this is the case.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] maxpower7:
Am I the only one having problems after restoring with Titanium? Or has nobody else tried it?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] cj10488:
Anyone want to upload the update script from within the update file. My copy is on my laptop at work and I wanted to get working on updating this update script to exclude all file checks and remove the bootloader update from the script. If I can do this tonight I would be willing to try and install this tomorrow morning and update the thread
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] JoeFCaputo113:
Holy crap anyone know where I can download the Odin file of stock MF9 unrooted. Both #1 and #2 won't freakin DL -___-
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] dandan2980:
Just tried as you suggested and I still het the error when trying to update
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] SeanK_:
Factory Reset maybe?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] boneman1:
I used Triangle Away and flashed back to unrooted stock MF9 yesterday. So far no OTA. Just wondering if anybody the D/FW area has received the OTA update yet?