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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] love is me:
I have not upgraded to 4.3 yet. So, I am just trying to give the users a solution that may work.

Have you tried to extracted MF3 tar file?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2504311

This is the stock 4.2.2 AT&T MF3 ROM that was shipped with S4.

I bricked my phone couple of times before by installing other 4.3 ROMs and was able to fix it by re-flashing the MF3 stock ROM.

If you are stock and want to downgrade, I believe you have nothing to lose to try to flash it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] jd1639:
You can't down grade period. A qfuse is blown. If you don't know what that is look it up

Sent from my i727 on 4.4 KitKat
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] scott14719:
This is a 4.3 thread, so people would assume you were talking about going from 4.3 back to 4.2, which can not be done.

The MF3 firmware provided was from the BestBuy / Samsung SMART program.

The 4.3 ROMs you soft bricked with were still based on the 4.2.2 bootloader. That is why you were able to ODIN back to stock MF3. For people that flashed the 4.3 MJ6 leak or for those that take the OTA when it is released, they CAN NOT flash (via ODIN) back to MF3. AT best, it will not work and there is a possibility it might soft brick their phone. Of course, it should still be possible to still ODIN back to the MJ6 leak, but definitely not back to MF3.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] reyg25atx06:
yes the extract worked.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] vishnugs:
Custom Recovery

Hi, I have been following this thread ever since I decided to flash this ROM.

I'm running 4.3 right now on i337 and managed to get rid of the security issues after factory reset. One thing that failed with this leaked ROM is the Encrypt option which is required for corporate exchange email access. Essentially, it reboots to recovery to do encryption, which stays at 0% for hours and days. Did anyone have any success with device encrypt.

On a side note, would like to know if we can flash TWRP recovery after rooting this using VRoot and install other custom ROMs. Also I see a lot of reference to successful rooting using VROOT in this thread, but when I google, I find most of the instructions which are referring to files which were not designed for i337. Is there any specific instruction guide.

Thanks in advance.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] hovax615@hotmail.com:
You should know that this is a LEAKED version and the real one should be out by Monday 11/13/13. I've never really used mail encryption but I have synced all 3 of my emails successfully.

I don't think you can flash twrp on this, I would look in the Verizon thread because they were the first to have the official 4.3 version and there will be more users to be able to confirm it than us on att since its a leaked version.

Supposedly VRoot/Kingo sends data to a host computer somewhere located in China doesn't know what info it sends, but I used VRoot to root 4.3. It will recognize your device as an sgh-i337 when you plug it in and it gives you a Chinese superuser which I still haven't figured out how to remove that anduse SuperSu
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] DeadlySin9:
TWRP will not work due to the locked bootloader. VRoot will work but it was determined suspicious due to it sending IMEI to a remote server.

Sent from my SGH-I337 running Foxhound 2.0
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] j510:
I think the update is november 13 not 11th.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] E3SYLER:
According to reports you are correct abot the 13th
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] hovax615@hotmail.com:
Sorry I thought it was the 11th but point being to that guy it is going to be out next week. Thanks for the correction! Cheers.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] E3SYLER:
Believe me I wish it were the 11th the bugs in this leak are getting on my nerves lol.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Andrew149:
What bugs?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] hovax615@hotmail.com:
Yeah I know. The transition turning back on. Sometimes my keyboard keeps going back to Samsung stock(I use Google keyboard.) Or when i type something the keyboard takes awhile. It feels sluggish at times even when I turned off a bunch of apps and animations plus got nova prime and have it set on faster than light but I guess its just TW that makes it slow. Tried Google play edition Roms on mf3 safestrap but the battery drain was horrendous and every ROM seemed like something was wrong with it that's why I went back to stock.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] ChefAnt:
Any updates on any projects?

*puts flame suit on*
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] 7mada:
Can I install it with ss?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] hovax615@hotmail.com:
No please read. This is the leak official 4.3 you can install it as your stock but you will lose the ability to flash custom Roms and you'd be on 4.3 instead of 4.2.2.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] xuanphucn:
do u think we will be able to get the 4.3 update once they roll out? WHat if they dont release the stock rom file then does that mean we stuck again?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] DeadlySin9:
Anyone not on this leak will be able to update normally and if they don't release it like before then we'll have to hope someone else leaks the files

Sent from my SGH-I337 running Foxhound 2.0
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] hovax615@hotmail.com:
We'll find a way to flash it just gotta wait till Wednesday
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] E3SYLER:
Dude ya took the words right our of my mouth those are my bugs and I can't install swiftkey like some other apps from the play store and I miss swiftkey .
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Andrew149:
Anyone else kernel does this for no reason?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Easton999GS:
What would happen if I flash a stock rom and fully stock 4.3 kernel to my SS rom slot... the 4.3 kernel is technically signed by AT&T/Samsung.. it wouldn't trip the bootloader...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] hovax615@hotmail.com:
It wouldn't work look at the safestrap thread only 4.2.2
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Supreme Dynamite:
The official AT&T update is supposedly releasing on the 13th. If I am running T-Mobile Service would I get the OTA? Or would I have to wait then manually update it?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] shamelin73:
You will have to wait till the Kies update(not sure if that will work with TM simm) or manually
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] RockRatt:
Keep your fingers crossed for kies to have it. But DON'T hold your breath. Kies never had it for MF3 so probably won't for MJ6 (or whatever version is the official). If it wasn't for a person having a friend at Best Buy Samsung Experience we would not have had a official mf3 firmware either.

Sent From My Spiderman,Ironman,Red,Dark Blue,Green, GreyedOut BadAss Themed I337
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] ACardAttack:
I wonder if we didn't get a Kies update because MF3 was still 4.2.2 and it was an ATT thing, where 4.3 is a samsung update
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] dark5577:
I remember reading that if the device has been activated on AT&T in the past you can get OTAs. I can't find the post where I read that, though, so someone correct me if I'm wrong.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] ChefAnt:
Well seeing as though you need AT&T service to receive the OTA he would not receive it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] E3SYLER:
i think we will be fine as i was just checking sammobile and seen where they have the 4.3 firmware for the verizon and sprint GS4 for download and im sure they will put the at&t version up when its released so we can do a clean odin restore.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] bigfdaddy2:
Is there a rdf page for each device like sprint does? I've gone to att developers website and it doesn't list our device just the mega and below.. Nor the HTC one just HTC one mini
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] calvinkhanhluu:
no....me too
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] joeespo:
If we are on MF3 and flash this MJ6 via Safestrap to stock, will we lose root or is there a current way to get root on 4.3?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] mrnovanova:
Sorry. Bro. AT&T only. Just found out.

Carried by a Raven
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] thinh182009:
hehe Khui heniken ..................:D:p
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] phobia09:
Anybody who's flashed this want to attempt the Kingo Root method recently discovered for mf3? That way we can find out if users can root this before the OTA hits.

EDIT: Discovered the Kingo thread is locked down due to unknowns in the methodology of the process; possible malicious intent. Disregard my suggestion.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] lthary:
Can you post the zip?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] AxAtAx:
This is legit, it is just a leak, looking good, works perfect, just as the i9505 MJ5 leak a week ago. I do not think it can run on the i337m just yet, kernel issue, but all is well on the US i337...so, looks as if the official release is right around the corner...

I have it working, stole a few items from the Mj5 build, but it is a winner.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] jd1639:
Can you go back to an early firmware, or are you stuck on this version. I'm guessing root is an issue?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] AxAtAx:
do not know that part, and if I do the build, it will be pre-rooted. so the root method is there, going back to a previous version should be no problem either, as I am going to replace the boot.img.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] jd1639:
Ah, good. So you flashed it thru recovery.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] AxAtAx:
lol, no not yet, we created a .tar, and I am running it thru kitchen.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] squarebobspongepants:
Ive read through this. I can not get this thing to flash through Odin. Heimdall doesn't work for me even after i downloaded the files it said i needed. What am I doing wrong?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] FrankJL_:
how do you flash this using odin 3.09? I am on stock s4 att rooted
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] ryanaslett:
You *really* shouldnt be using the Kingo Root until they own up to what exploits they are using, otherwise you may just be installing botware for china on your phone. Kingo Root reaches out to service.wmshua.com. They *could* be whitehat chinese hackers who just wanna own their phone. Or they could be installing a backdoor into your phone. Until somebody with deeper dev cred does some payload analysis of what is coming back from their servers (maybe its just a certificate check), or does a checksum on the rooted phone to verify that they arent doing something radically fishy, or until they confirm with a trusted source here, how they are exploiting these phones, Its a safe bet to wait until we know for sure what they're doing.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] LZLandingZone:
Pretty sure that with its popularity, someone by now would have figured out if it was malicious or not. Bluebox isn't returning anything abnormal on the apps it installed, but we'll see what happens.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] ryanaslett:
That doesn't make it safe...

Bluebox isnt a comprehensive malware scanner, it searches for a *specific* exploit (the masterkey exploit). If you are opening your phone up directly to a server in china with root access, it doesn't need to use an exploit like that. It is already taking advantage of a different exploit (unspecified) to give you root. Once it has root, it's got privileges to do just about anything to your system and therefore does not need to use the masterkey exploit.

It's possible that its installing something that is even aware of droidwall and other outbound firewalls and hides it's outbound traffic. (if it ever does phone home), and it may be doing nothing more noticeable than datalogging and reporting back home.

Despite its popularity, nobody has figured out that it is *not* malicious (that Im aware of), therefore its suspect.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Sultan1993:
So, if I was stuck on MF3 with only odin and recovery options available, can i flash this firmware in order to boot it up? (my phone is not booting due to custom rom, i only have odin mode and recovery mode available)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] :
I thought I read XDA banned it--:confused:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Easton999GS:
Is the Kernel in this leak signed? because we may be able to run this with safestrap. Just replace the boot.img and flash a 4.3 rom. We wont have to worry about tripping the bootloader because this kernel is already signed.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] phobia09:
You are correct. My apologies for not checking before making the suggestion.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Andrew149:
Anyone phone vibrating randomly, every time they turn off the display?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] squarebobspongepants:
I think you might be talking about Smart Alert. You can turn it off by going into settings>my device>motions and gestures>motion>smart alert.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] hovax615@hotmail.com:
Yeah my phone kept vibrating randomly I thought my phone was messed up.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] dreamgirl2011:
When i download this link it tells me it's a corrupted file

I am having a hell of a time with this update link. It say's broken after downloading it! Is there someway you can give me another link or point me in the right direction as to where i can get this at?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] hovax615@hotmail.com:
Just wait for tomorrow you'll get the official version via OTA update. Go to settings - more - about device - software update and check for update.

From what I'm looking at in your profile your on sprint? This is the AT&T forum.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] E3SYLER:
If he/she does have sprint then go to sammobile and DL the firmware. I'm waiting on the att 4.3 to show up there.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] hovax615@hotmail.com:
You might as well sleep on it. It looked like the people on Verizon didn't get their update till late afternoon. So I'm thinking its going to be the same way. Hopefully att fixes several bugs in this or maybe they're going to just leave it the same but have this thing locked down tighter than a correctional facility.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] jball:
I'm not touching another update till this bootloader gets unlocked.if it can't be unlocked.if not before income tax I will buy the I9505 S4 .I hate ATT for this crap
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Andrew149:
Your not gonna unlock encrypted bootloader unless someone from att leaks the code. It's about impossible.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] jball:
Trust me man "I" definitely can't unlock the bootloader. It will be achieved one day.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] hovax615@hotmail.com:
Why don't you get the nexus 5?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] jball:
Just checked it out and it sounds good .Maybe I should keep my options open. It is snapdragon 800
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] AlcoholicDoc:
That's what I did. My Nexus 5 gets shipped on the 22nd. I'm done with the S4 after that. Samsung is doing the same thing that pushed me away from the iPhone.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] gtj0:
I've had my nexus 5 for a week. Not looking back. :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] jball:
Are you both ATT customers?

---------- Post added at 11:27 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:23 PM ----------

Sorry I answered my own question. Did ATT give you any problems with activating the nexus 5
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] gtj0:
I just popped the sim out of the S4 and into the N5. Didn't even have to talk to them. Problems people seem to be having switching to an N5 are due to not having an LTE device previously.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] jball:
I am seriously considering that phone
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] gtj0:
Not to derail this thread but... as long as you're not tied to the samsung apps (which I never was) the N5 is a great phone.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] jball:
Could care less. Tired of a locked down phone
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] gtj0:
Doesn't look like MJ6 is going to update OTA to MJ9.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] E3SYLER:
looks that way. we will have to wait for an MD5 file.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] gtj0:
I just posted a guide on how to get from mj6 to mj9 here... http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2526964
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] hovax615@hotmail.com:
I don't think there's significantly a big difference between the two, mj6 and mj9 to want to upgrade at the moment everything works great for me and its 4.3 so I'm just going to wait till there's an md5 file available to upgrade so I'm going to stick to mj6 as of right now.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] bigfdaddy2:
Big difference in speed and smoothness and overall polished alot better ...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] shamelin73:
did this build have the Knox application?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] xuanphucn:
no:crying:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] bec48:
If you go to all apps and scroll down it shows its installed
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] scott14719:
As stated in the OP, KNOX is part of this build.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] shamelin73:
The Knox app is not.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] scott14719:
What KNOX app? There are several KNOX apps available at the KNOX store. But unless you are an IT Manager or business owner with a Samsung KNOX license or are part of a company / organization that is deploying KNOX, what good will they do you? Are you sure you know what KNOX is?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] shamelin73:
Look at the Verizon forums. There is an app to create the separate profiles.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] scott14719:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=47506626&postcount=16

Specifically:

https://www.samsungknox.com/en/overview/getting-started

If this is the app you are referring to (from the playstore)...

Knxapploader:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sec.knox.app.container&hl=en

I would think twice about it if i were you. Look at some of the reviews.

However, if you can get that app onto the AT&T S4 with 4.3 ( I am on MDL so it is incompatible), here is some more info...

https://www.samsungknox.com/en/knox-consumer

Make sure to post back if you can install it and get it working.

Come to think of it, if your 4.3 S4 shows to not be compatible with that app (it might only work for Note 3), you might still be able to side load it if you can get a copy of the app itself. The phone should be capable of running it, it's just a matter of getting it on the phone. Maybe try to get a copy of the International version S4 KNOX profile manager app (look further down in this post) and see if it will work on the AT&T S4 like the International Note 3 version works on the AT&T Note 3. Of course, there is always risk with ANYTHING you try and without an ODIN flashable file, I'de be careful if i were you. Like I said, let us know if you can successfully DL and install it from the playstore.

Here, some more information about this entire situation from the Note 3 forum:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2470278

The thread also states that there are FCs with rooted phones and the profile manager app but it looks like some installed it without root or problems. However, it also said AT&T should be pushing an update that will include the app in a few weeks? Maybe this will include the S4 4.3 (MJ9) as well? Anyway, read the thread for more information. It is from the Note 3 forum, but I am willing to bet it is the same for the S4. Just make sure to read that entire thread before you try anything!

You can download a stock MJ9 International ROM from the 19505 forum here:

http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s4/i9505-develop

and extract the Knoxstub.apk and see if it will work with the AT&T S4. If it works, it should install like a regular APK and start downloading additional files so you can set up different profiles on your phone. Like I said, there is always risk.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] vazovskiiii:
i337

hallo i have read couple topics but did not get any answer can i flash i9505 oficiall rom on i337? as i know there is no diference between this 2 phones in hardware i'm not sure
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] jball:
If its a rom

If your MDL than search "run other carriers roms "

If MF3 than you will have to use the same search along with Safestrap
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] vazovskiiii:
this iz 7z package how to install it trough the odin?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] jball:
Keep it up man your doing a fine job"JohnMonsor"

I didn't want to quote you for cluttering the thread
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] bennyboy78:
+1 doing good work man. You and jeboo, Hashcode, and surge, along with any other members helping the effort should all collaborate ;)

That would be cool
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] dcekingjon:
HELP PLS!!!!

Someone please help me!!!! I have been searching for the 4.3 update to JB for my SGH-I337 for the past 3 days. I thought I had found a method to do it but all i've managed to do was factory reset my gs4. I swear on everything I am a complete noob , I just like to get my hands dirty every once in a while to keep my phone updated with latest OS updates. It all started with my addiction to BlackBerrys. Any way I'm on here and have been on here for the past 3 days tryin to figure this BS out but I can't.

To begin: I have a AT&T Samsung Galaxy SGH-I337 4.2.2. which was previously rooted and using twrp with (i guess these are the modems?) mdl.

I decided to check to see if there was an official OTA update available which there was, I obviously tried to do the update the normal everyday user way but upon restart my device would notify me that there was a failure, this happened twice (24 hours later). I read somewhere that some people were having this problem because their phones were rooted so they needed to unroot. So genius me went to look for unroot videos (did not do the binary thing since i am not returning the device) and proceeded to attempt to unroot using Odin3 v1.85 using a file named I337UCUAMDL_I337ATTAMDL_I337UCUAMDL_HOME.tar.md5 but I think what I actually did was just reroot my phone and in the end factory reset my phone.

so I restart my device (which still said Custom) and I go back into software updates and look for an updated version and I get updated to 4.2.2. MF3. So now I have no idea what I've done or what to do!!!!!

I have Odin which I've used once and I downloaded the file and Heimdall DG provided (which i've NEVER used) and I'm kinda tryin to figure this out, I've looked for tutorials and everything and I just have no clue what I'm doing ... I know you guys keep posting whatever pops up on odin and what not but that looks like chinese to me (no offense to anyone) what I really need is a tutorial, a step by step tutorial that tells me exactly what I need to do, the tutorial in the read me file in the HEIMDALL folder didn't really help me. PLEASE IM BEGGING SOMEONE HELP ME!! I just need to be pointed in the right direction maybe i overlooked it in the posts or something but then again I kinda just skipped through the posts trying to find a tutorial since all I saw looked like jibberish to me.

Again if someone could just shoot me to an installing 4.3 on SGH-I337 using odin or heimdall tutorial guide or tell me how to do it i would be greatly appreciative!!!!! All this just cuz i wanted to move my apps from my device to my sd -______-

P.S. when I run zadig Samsung USB Composite Device does NOT show up.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] jd1639:
There is no odin flashable 4.3 file.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] bennyboy78:
You kinda Shot yourself in the foot... You could flash a 4.3 rom, or any rom for that matter, on MDL. Now you're stuck on MF3, you can only flash 4.2.2 roms. Search for the side load thread if you want to sideload the 4.3 update
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] jball:
WOW!don't search people what ever you do just don't search.