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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] HiTideBlastoise:
One downside to that is if you mess up, good luck fixing it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] travispittman:
Research it. Then research it some more. Research it until you are comfortable doing it yourself. Don't let someone bully and say you might mess up your phone. You could mess up your phone by dropping it in your sink among other things. But doing this is quite simple. Follow the steps here is even a youtube video to do it. If you have any questions ask away. Some ppl are jerks and say it was answered somewhere else you should of found it elsewhere. When all posts inevitably get buried under mounds and mounds of new posts. Remember you only fail if you stop trying.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TCl9ysOoT4
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] IceTwig:
Free SIM

You could also head to t-mobile site and get a free SIM, I think they still are giving them away, not sure. I was able to get two free SIMs 5 days ago.

t-mobile free sim-card
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] scott14719:
And this guy ^^^ isn't going to fix your phone for you if it does screw up. The "free" unlock method works for some and does not for others. I completely agree with the research until your eyes fall out part, but, in this, case, it still might not help you. So, basically, if you try the "free' unlock method it might work, it might not, and it might mess your phone up. Unfortunately, you won't know until you try. I would just go to your local mall or T-mobile store and get a cheap pre-paid sim card that you can use in your and your wife's phone. Don't listen to people that think something will work for everyone just because it worked for them, especially when it is proven to not be the case. Good luck.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] mattgyver:
I walked into a tmo store and sled if they had an activated micro Sim so I could test my phones unlock status. I told them I was thinking of switching, but needed to verify if my s4 was unlocked (I used the service menu method).
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] tx6shooter:
Would you mind sharing how you got them to unlock your phone, I have been trying for a while now without any success.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] mattgyver:
When I had my old smartphone, I called att and told them I'd be visiting my sister in London, and that I'd want to use prepaid SIM cards, as it would be cheaper than international rates. They had no problem unlocking it (galaxy s).

Sent from my TARDIS
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] johnus:
^ This. Has yet to fail me.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] ChongoDroid:
Lol it doesn't "mess up" your phone. *sigh* stop scaring the kiddies

5T4Y FR05TY
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] mobileunlocked:
Usually no prompt means the phone isn't actually locked. There's a ton of instances when a network simply missed a handset and failed to lock it. For anyone I'd say test your phone first. Make sure it is locked before going through the process of unlocking it.

Also, this works on a number of older Samsung's, not too sure if it'll work on newer models, but you can type a command that targets the network lock, which is #0111*code# - you simply replace "code" with the code AT&T or anyone else gives you and it should unlock the phone. Someone might be able to confirm this as possible or not for the newer Samsung's?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] tx6shooter:
I tried the traveling story. That does not work anymore. CS, including supervisor refused.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] IceTwig:
I have a AT&T Galaxy S4 SGH-i337 on MF3 and Region Lock Away unlocked the Region & SIM. I tested it with a T-Mobile SIM. The OP of Region Lock DOES NOT CLAIM it will work with the SGH-i337 but I have unlocked a S3(SGH-i747) a S4(SGH-i337) and a Galaxy TAB 2 (SGH-i497) it was worth the few bucks.

Region Lock Away
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] ximaginex:
I can also verify that this works with the AT&T Samsung Galaxy S4 i337 on MF3.
[General Questions and Answers] muazra:
Someone please please help me. I am in desperate need of a solution. And before I lay out the issue I am having, I would like to thank everyone for taking their time to read through my post and give their input. I truly appreciate it everybody. Much much thanks.

Just as a disclaimer, I've looked all over the internet, everywhere I can possibly find for days on end, and none of what I found worked for me. It feels like I tried everything there could be, and that is why I am coming here. Again, thank you.

So here's a little background information: I have a Verizon Samsung Galaxy S4 (SCH-I545). I got the phone over the summer, and as soon as I received the phone I was updated to the apparently dreadful VRUMAE7 update. There afterwards, I tried rooting the phone. I've had rooting experience before with decent success, and never ran into problems like I did. It took awhile for me root my S4, but after awhile I was able to successfully root it. Although, I'm pretty sure I may have done something wrong. You will see why shortly.

So a week or two back, my S4 prompted me to update to the next update. I believe it was Android 4.3 (VRUEMJ7). I was very excited for the update and tried running it. But every time I accepted the update and tried updating, my phone went into Recovery to download the new update and stalled out with an error. Thereafter I would have to reboot the phone to get it working again. After failing to update multiple times, I realized that it is probably because I messed up my root. So without doing much research, I simply tried flashing the stock firmware that came with my phone thinking it should work pretty flawlessly.

I have a Mac OS, so using VmWare Fusion with Windows 7, I downloaded Odin and booted up my phone on Recovery mode, downloaded the stock VRUMAE7 firmware I found online, and began flashing. But Odin threw me a error, so I tried rebooting my phone thinking it would go back to normal. BUT this time, it kept going into recovery mode with a yellow Triangle saying firmware was installed incorrectly, etc. I was so frustrated at this point, thinking that I truly may have bricked my phone.

I began on this long journey of going through all the sources I could find online possible, downloading every type of Verizon S4 firmware I can find, trying every Odin method possible, and spending long long hours of the night biting my fingers at my dreadful fate. I even tried flashing the stock PIT File along with my stock firmware, to see if that would fix it. But no luck. I also tried using a standard windows machine rather than VMware, still with no luck.

I ask you all to please suggest any ideas, thoughts, or inputs you possibly can. I am willing to try anything and everything at this point. Please do help. I appreciate you guys reading through my lengthy question, sorry for that. Just wanted to lay everything out.

Thank you very very much.
[General Questions and Answers] GMMEMO:
Hi there,

it seems an easy problem but do it at your own risk I don't take responsibility of bricked device,etc

so lets go with what you need:

A- Odin [I believe you already have it]

B- stock rom go to this site:

androidayos.com/samsung-galaxy-s4-odin-stock-firmware/

and choose the suitable stock rom based on your Baseband version

C- Drivers installed for your device [if your mac/laptop recognizes your device then skip this step if not google it,download the drivers and install them]

IMPORTANT:Make sure you have 80% or more on battery

after you get these stuff install the device drivers as mentions in C then turn your device off and power it while holding volume up it should take you to download.now open odin and navigate it to the rom which you downloaded from B and flash it .wait for green color to appear and your back to your stock now it should open normally hope that I helped
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] litesout:
Just a heads up for anyone thinking about getting a flip case for your GS3 or GS4. I was just at Target and the one by me has the genuine Samsung S-View case and flip cases for the Galaxy S3 and S4 on clearance. Picked up a S-View case for $18. Oddly, the flip cases are marked at $20. Great price for anyone looking for genuine accessories!

I found them in the Hunter's Creek Target in Orlando. Check your local stores too!
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] LZLandingZone:
I'm in Boynton Beach and they're still full price here. I'll have to check again soon. Maybe they didn't put the new pricing up yet.
[Nexus 5 General] jlmcr87:
Ok bad news, I use system tuner + stability test apps and the cpu slow down to 1119 Mhz. This explains low scores in some benchmarks.

:(
[Nexus 5 General] kaywalker23:
Why is that bad news? I've set my cpu speed to 1200mhz and have been running chrome without hiccups. I don't think it actually affects performance that much.
[Nexus 5 General] avus_m3:
But benchmarks man....Seriously though the phone is screaming fast so I say let it save some battery by throttling down.
[Nexus 5 General] NovaSlim:
Every phone, including the Iphone throttles. Unless there is evidence that N5 throttles a lot more than other S800 phone in non-benchmark tasks this is nothing to worry about imo.
[Nexus 5 General] Ajfink:
Established behavior. Other phones detect benchmarking software and go full throttle to look better on paper than they are in use.

Sent from my Nexus 4
[Nexus 5 General] sewer56lol:
Samsung ones especially....
[Nexus 5 General] dannstarr:
I don't care what the numbers say... my phone flies through everything in real world use. This, is good news.

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I just had a little go on the wife's galaxy nexus... I thought something was wrong with it with how slow it felt
[Nexus 5 General] AppReviewBros:
I have now played many games on my Nexus 5 and I haven't noticed any impact on the performance when playing for long periods of time. Whereas Nexus 4 would slow down dramatically once the throttling comes.
[Nexus 5 General] Phazmos:
Funny, my gnex is just as smooth as the new n5. Gnex is running 4.3.1, but I also loaded a couple kk roms and also just as smooth as the n5. Doesn't take much to run an android os, but other things go a helluva lot faster on the n5 with the 4 cores and faster clock speeds.
[Nexus 5 General] Yakandu:
what app are you using?

incredicontrol, kernel tuner and nofrills arent working for me, you can set the max freq but the cpu ignores the limit
[Nexus 5 General] kaywalker23:
SetCpu works like a charm.

I've only made 3 conditions for it.

when locked: 300/300

chrome: 300/1200

otherwise: 300/800

What's amazingly surprising is the phone is still very snappy with these frequencies. Sometimes I disable the profiles just to play around but when I'm looking for battery savings I enable them.
[Nexus 5 General] jlmcr87:
With stability test only 30 seconds for the CPU to drop to 1119 Mhz:(
[Nexus 5 General] BoneXDA:
I only care about throttling if it affects overall performance. So far users report smooth browsing and gaming in the most demanding situations, so it's cool. Nexus devices never fared well at benchmarks anyway.
[Nexus 5 General] ajvulcan:
Another dissapointing... I suppose this is what they were talking about when said "power saving".

PD: Cooltool + setcpu
[Nexus 5 General] italia0101:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GRcTxaWd24

check that if you want to see the effect of throttling in gaming
[Nexus 5 General] sluflyer06:
Do you pull half the fuel injector harnesses out in your car to?
[Nexus 5 General] noobdeagle:
The bigger factor is that all games look like they only use 2 cores even at lower speeds they would run much better if properly threaded
[Nexus 5 General] italia0101:
Yes that's true ,
[Nexus 5 General] 3Shirts:
That's the problem with having more cores, developers are still making things for older (and more prevalent) hardware. Same thing happened in the early days of multi-core CPUs in computers as well. To begin with you got far worse performance on a dual core 1.5Ghz machine than on a single core with 2Ghz because the OS and applications didn't use the second core. Fortunately phone evolution is way faster and I expect games and apps to take advantage of all the cores much sooner than it happened on PC.
[Nexus 5 General] Tom540:
As on the nexus 4, I have no doubt that we will be able to turn off thermal throttling with custom kernels
[Nexus 5 General] NicholasQ:
Lol. Put down the crack pipe.
[Nexus 5 General] Phazmos:
serious - when set up right, that dual core old timer is smooth. hell, motox it dual core, and runs 4.3 smooth. iPhone is also dual core.

doesn't take much to run a mobile os, when done right anyway.
[Nexus 5 General] macho3215:
Without any changes on stock nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] nitrogen618:
Yep. Thermal throttle sucks. Even with franco kernel (63 to 70C throttle), UV'd by -75.. Can't wait till make this throttle at 100C like I did with the S4. O:
[Nexus 5 General] jlmcr87:
What´s the name of the app that measures the CPU while playing? Thanks
[Nexus 5 General] italia0101:
System monitor by Christian gollner
[Nexus 5 General] Molitro:
I have to go with NicholasQ on this one. My GNexus has never run as smooth as has been lately, and it is pretty smooth, but the difference is there and can't be ignored.

Then we can talk about how chrome runs in both phones to have a night and day difference, but the os itself runs obviously better on the N5.

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] noodles2k:
It looks like thermal throttling is an issue on the Note 3 as well, it keeps getting beaten by the G2 in Antutu. It's possible the solution is also underclocking rather than just undervolting.

How many cores you have is irrelevant, it's the power of the cores that is. Each of the cores on the 5s is more powerful than 10 of the GNEX cores put together.
[Nexus 5 General] jlmcr87:
Thanks. And for the frames per second? I don´t find it
[Nexus 5 General] italia0101:
Fps meter.. Paid
[Nexus 5 General] Phazmos:
Never bothered with chrome. I try it every now and then, but it just can't reflow text properly. Aosp browser rules at this. I down to using opera now. Have to double tap every page to see it, but at least text is properly formatted, my priority in a browser.

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It's not 10 time as powerful, but again, just goes to show, a decent os runs just fine on minimal hardware. And that's one of the goals with kitkat, running on minimal hardware to decrease fragmentation.
[Nexus 5 General] noodles2k:
Actually it is. People seem to forget that the GNEX was pre-Exynos and used a Ti Omap 4460, which were always pretty rubbish. Peak performance is only 75 mflops. On the 5s it's 750.

Art's probably the most important thing about KitKat, as running everything in Dalvik VM has always hampered performance.

As for fragmentation and KitKat, they're not even making an official release for the GNex. :eek:
[Nexus 5 General] crashercarlton:
Something I've Noticed with Faux Kernel (i've tried several) is it allows for up to 110 Celsius for Core Frequency Throttling and Core Shut off...However even set at that i can't leave the phone on performance mode at stock clocks and finish an antutu benchmark the phone reboots or shuts off well before it ever hits 80C, and thats with MPDecision off to also keep throttling from kicking in....Watch Alot of Kernels and governors during these and they don't use all the processor or throttle in performance mode with safety bars raised high they do stay at max speed...So what gives is it made to throttle that bad because it can't run on all cores at maximum speed even with (okay) temps before it reboots? Something's amiss here on my nexus 7 2013 and galaxy s3 i can run performance mode and let it throttle with no problems...it will complete a benchmark and with better results than stock on those devices, however on this phone it can't even compete with current technology because it will absolutely not stop throttling, and when it doesn't by means of shutting that crap off...it can't seem to handle it
[Nexus 5 General] Aircondition:
Only got 23000?! How can you get 2900 in antutu? Im also running stock with root.
[Nexus 5 General] kaywalker23:
Instead of making stupid analogies, try what has been suggested. I see absolutely no performance difference between 1.2 and 2.2 ghz cpu speed. but to each their own I guess
[Nexus 5 General] iOSecure:
Nexus 5 throttles a lot more than any device, including Apple products (just to get that out of the way). LG's thermal control file thermald.conf measure battery temperature as a variable to throttle GPU and CPU as seen in that video it seriously impacts his game play to the point it was unplayable within 5min

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b9tPCjmp3A
[Nexus 5 General] simms22:
not true. the nexus 4 throttles much more than the n5, at lower temps even. bit, all the different thermal throttles can easily be disabled.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dannstarr:
I'm noticing strange WiFi issues, in that my data speeds keep slowing down to a standstill for no reason.

In fact, when I first booted the device, and started to install my apps, I wondered why there were downloading so slowly, so I installed "SpeedTest" and sure enough my data speeds were like 1.5mbps. To test that my network hadn't just suddenly gone crazy, I ran the test from my laptop and that confirmed normal speeds.

To remedy this, I changed my advanced wifi settings to just use the 2.4 ghz signal, then changed my router settings (a BT Home Hub 3) from smart wireless (auto changes channel to the "best" channel to just remain on that already pre determined best channel.

I then immediately saw an improvement, as it was downloading now at about 27mbps... and so I thought I'd cracked it.

Apparently not.... It regularly goes back to downloading really slowly, and sometimes, messing with all those settings again doesn't do anything to improve the speeds.

Anyone else experiencing this, or has any insights as to what is going on? could it be a wifi driver issue, which may be rectified in later updates or baseband versions?

Here are some pics to give you an idea... all from the same network
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dannstarr:
Back to awesome after changing router security settings... I wonder how long it will last this time?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] t2002:
Exactly the same for me:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2514501

I'm being sent a replacement but I can't say I'm convinced that one will be any different.

This issue occurred on my BT home hub, a tp-link access point, and the access points where I work.
[General Questions and Answers] Paul1964:
I have the Paranoid Android version 3.99-RC2 on my Samsung Galaxy Note GT-N7000. Android version 4.3 frequently happens that my WIFI signal is lost and I can not turn it on. It seems as if the screen is stuck.

Rebooting sometimes helps, and also remove battery and then restart.

Is this a software problem?

Also the battery is empty within about 8 hours

The original version was Android 2.3.5

Are there are more problems with this phone familiar? Is the original Android 2.3.5. better to use with this phone?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] zainal2adidin:
Hello. I have a Lonovo P780 ideaphone, Just bought it new.

at first try, my sim cannot be detected (GSM) both slots, 2G or 3G, I tried other sims, nothing happen. I tried on other phones, the sim works well.

The phone can detect sim provider, but cannot detect any network. SIM contacts OK, Even when I tried to choose network manually, I cannot do it, it says network error. Whats the problem?

how too root the phone and/or flash cwm then newer stock rom? where to download?

Thanks and best regards.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] mrsclem:
Got my xda back from repair yesterday (following a problem whereby it forgot it was a phone and refused to make or receive calls or send or receive text messages). Now, there doesn't appear to be a phone pad for writing text messages using T9 - which is very annoying, because that's the mode I like to use as my main preference.

This morning, after charging the unit up overnight, I went to make a phone call, and instead of opening up the phone screen, it kept insisting what I really needed was my tasks. I had to reset the unit to get it to make a call.

I've decided it's completely unstable, and am going to try to get it replaced. Not a happy bunny. I've only had this thing a couple of months, and it's never worked properly from day one. I wish it would, because in THEORY, it's the mutt's.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zainal2adidin:
Hello. I have a Lonovo P780 ideaphone, Just bought it new.

at first try, my sim cannot be detected (GSM) both slots, 2G or 3G, I tried other sims, nothing happen. I tried on other phones, the sim works well.

The phone can detect sim provider, but cannot detect any network. SIM contacts OK, Even when I tried to choose network manually, I cannot do it, it says network error. Whats the problem?

how too root the phone and/or flash cwm then newer stock rom? where to download?

Thanks and best regards.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bgd_cm:
the same problem I have too :( any solutions?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cortezone:
Very same issue here. Quite a big disappointment because my spouse chose this one out of a Sony Experia Z, Motorola Razr and two Chinese Samsung clones. Anyone with a solution? :mad:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] nguyento1986:
I have Samsung galaxy S4 after unbrick softbricked with mj7 stock firmware now the phone only work with roaming and 3g only not 4g Lte,

So anyone can help me how to repair eri on setting/ about/ status now the IMEI is ok but the ERI is none.

That is my problem.

Thanks for help.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] zmedhaug:
im in the same boat brother. i tried everything so far.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yoseth:
Anyone have a download for latest stable of carbon rom and instructions for flash?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jsilver73:
Carbon 1.8 is last 4.2.2 version which is very stable, I used it for some time. However, latest nightlies on 4.3.1 are also very stable. Follow the Carbon devs instructions for flashing in their thread.

Happy flashing :cool:
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yoseth:
But I can't find the download for 1.6 stable 4.2.2 anywhere, only see the nightlies on the goo website.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jsilver73:
Yes, gooim are doing a lot of work to their servers right now and everything has got a bit mixed up. Try the latest nightly, I downloaded one last night, you have to be little patient though as this mirror is also intermittent. Here's the link:

http://download.carbon-rom.com/?dir=i9100
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cloves:
Does anyone know why google would give IOS users advanced users before its own OS? Iphone and Ipads can now call and receive calls from LAN lines via google hang outs. How much sense can that make to users who just purchased Nexus 7 phones and tablets??

:confused:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] diogofd8:
Hi!

Since I brought my Galaxy Nexus I have it rooted and I was always aware of the existance of Kernels and Roms but because stock android was always very satisfatory I've never tried to install anything more than stock roms and some themes in the phone.

Now that Google closed the doors for Galaxy Nexus and we're not getting 4.4 officially I decided to study more about those custom modifications so I need some advices and lessons :D

What are the best rated kernels? (I only know the name of franco kernel)

What exactly do the custom kernels do to the phone?

How can I install a custom kernel?

What are the AOSP builds? Are they different from the official 4.3 JWR66Y? In what aspects?

Odexed and Deodexed... What is the meaning of that?

How can I decompile & compile apps and/or .jar files?

What is the SMALI code?

Well, I hope you can help me with the basis of Galaxy Nexus "Tunning" :laugh: