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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] itsjuztin:
Any idea why my home button would quit working after flash? :(

Also keep getting "Unfortunately, Clock has stopped working" at startup, and when I bring down the notification drawer, I can't go over to the tiles with my phone settings.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] fineazbro:
Camera not working for me every time i try to use cam it keep saying update camera firmware ..any help on how i can get the camera to work . thanks
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] DSDONE:
If you are rooted, use titanium backup to switch the camera app from a system app to a user app, attach it to the market and then update it... Or uninstalling it altogether and installing the Google camera app...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] fineazbro:
ok thanks will give it a shot
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] DSDONE:
You're welcome!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] lol Qaeda:
Checked the thread for info on changing vibration intensity but didn't find anything helpful... Is there a way to do that or should we use another kernel? If so, is there a recommended one?

Thanks.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] bjornturoque:
I'm on T-Mobile. If I wanted to flash ktoonsez, I would flash the Google Edition one from this link, correct? http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2289140

Also, are there recommended settings?

Is ktoonsez the preferred kernel? Or is the stock one fine?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] viskon:
Just clean flashed this rom today for the first time. Everything is super smooth. One issue though - charging seems to be slow. My phone's been on the charger for an hour, and it's gone from 10% to 16%. Anyone else have this or is it just me?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Danvdh:
i def don't experience this

stock is fine
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] PENKO956:
vibration intensity is controlled by kernel. just flash a custom kernel.

OP:

Googy kernel (closer to stock)

Ktoonsez kernel (tons of original development)

enable fast charging with a custom kernel. it also depends on the data cable you are using. some cables are for data+charge and some just for charging. if you want 1900mA max charge you should buy a fast (Rapid) charge cable.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/31095671897...eName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] viskon:
I'm using the charger and cable that came with the phone. It charged pretty fast on stock, so I'd be surprised if the cable is the problem.

I'll give it a few more charge /discharge cycles before going down the custom kernel route.

Thanks for the suggestion.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] atlharp:
Finally got around to flashing the new build. Once again, stable as hell. Thanks for ruining me for any other ROM . ?

Awesome work as always!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Sakete:
Perhaps there's an app running in the background that's seriously draining resources, which will slow down charging as well. Does your battery drain unusually fast when not charging? If so, try to find the culprit using BetterBatteryStats.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Moonfire.PDX:
You might check your cell radio (modem) firmware, too. Some of us have experienced poor reception since moving to 4.3 and 4.4 and this makes the radio run at full power trying to connect when it doesn't need to. Check your baseband version and consider trying another modem firmware.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] disturkis4u:
Whenever I go to the gallery the phone starts to vibrate as if it's about to force close. It also just shows black thumbnails something and I have to reload several times before the pics load. I just switched to this ROM so I'm wondering if this is typical?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] viskon:
Other than the first charge which went really slow, the second and subsequent charges have been relatively quick.

Maybe the rom and kernel just needed time to settle.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] texascrane:
I want to switch my phone over to cricket. I'm on the 6/28 release. I received an unlock code from T-mobile today, however whenever I enter it, I get "network unlock request unsuccessful". After a long time on the phone with tech support, I was able to confirm that the imei # and unlock code are correct.

Is it not working due to the ROM? Do I need to flash back to stock? Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] sheni7:
App2SD

Just wanted to ask if App2SD feature is included in this rom. If not, does that mean that this rom doesn't support this feature. Thank you.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] jwgizmo:
Dalvik or Art

Before the latest update I was running Art. Now after the latest update I cant get Art to stick after reboot. It reverts back to Dalvik. Any ideas or suggestions. Art is truly the way to go.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] nivekx9:
Do you have xposed?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] jwgizmo:
YES
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] serio22:
Xposed not compatible with ART so if you really want to use it, disable xposed
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] PENKO956:
cricket = CDMA

tmobile = GSM
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] jwgizmo:
I uninstalled xposed. Rebooted into recovery, cleared dalvik then rebooted. Went back into Dev ops selected use Art rebooted and its still reverts back to dalvik. WTH?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] nivekx9:
You can't just uninstall the xposed app. You need to open it and uninstall the framework.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Ditchrat69:
Really love this ROM, great job and thank you. Is ad blocker built in, or does it need to be checked. Can't seem to find it
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] dadykhoff:
Not featured, but it does support it. Use a third party app. Also don't quote the OP.

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Not built in. This ROM is bare bones.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] nivekx9:
Is the vibration upon screen rotation a part of the "pure nexus version"?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Ditchrat69:
Hmmm OP states ad blocking in features....
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] texascrane:
Incorrect. AT&T now owns cricket and all new phones/contracts are on AT&T's GSM/LTE network.

FWIW, I finally flashed back to stock firmware and was able to sim unlock the phone. I'm now switched over to Cricket.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] serio22:
That is correct, but I don't think cricket does contracts now do they?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] texascrane:
Sorry, should have said "all new phones/service"
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] viskon:
I have the same question. Sometimes when I click on links on my deals sites, the website does not load. I wonder if this is because of the ad blocker. I used to have this issue when I was using AdAway back in the day. Is there a way to disable the ad blocker ?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] jwgizmo:
Fixed... Thanks Art is running
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] hrjj:
Video

No one experiencing problems with video playback? I use this ROM and also a Nexus 7. In some apps (containing video), which will not be asked what video player I want to use, the video does not start. In other apps it takes a long time before the screen is sharp (1 to 1.5 minutes).

With the stock ROM on the S4 I do not have those problems. This is due to KitKat? Solution?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] phuthanvinh:
Dan, thank you very much for devoting all your time into this. This is what we need, a pure android, no samsung bull**** that slows down the phone and wastes space. Im gonna send you a beer asap. Thank you :)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] jordin1128:
If you're comfortable to do so, using a root explorer , go to system/etc/ and look for "host" and rename it to "host.conf" . save and reboot. I always, regardless of the ROM, go to the phone dialer and dial *#*#4636#*#* , go to phone information and scroll to the bottom and toggle 0.0.0.0 DNS allowed (should be not allowed you already toggled before). I believe this also helps for the host.conf block ads, but I could be wrong
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Ditchrat69:
I will give this a try, thank you
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] jordin1128:
So I tried a different approach. Knowing that AdAway uses the original host file and adds to it when updates, I uninstalled abp and installed adaway. When trying to update, I had a notification starting that my enabled hosts where not reachable and to make sure I was connected to the internet. Simple fix was to select the T-Mobile US LTE IP6v APN and all updated well..

Also, revert the naming back to just "host". After some research, that is the correct name without the extension .conf
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] invisiblewave:
My ROM review

Unusually, I have very little to say about this ROM. It's stock (or very close), and it works perfectly as far as I can tell. Unlike every other 4.4 rom I've tried, there are no random reboots, no freezes, no missed calls, and as far as I can tell this is the only 4.4 rom where alarm apps work correctly. I'll learn to live without the Samsung tv remote!:good::good:

Edit: For anybody missing the IR functionality, Smart IR Remote - AnyMote works, albeit at a price!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] ItsTommyBoy:
Hey, I've been having this problem too. A quick search in the thread and I still haven't found a solution (I've tried to blowing into the ear piece thing). On the stock rom it was fine. Has anyone found a fix?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] niccuany:
My wifi is being odd. Whenever I turn it on it doesn't scan for any networks. But if i manually add a wifi network it connects.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Danvdh:
UPDATE IN THE OP!

08/30/2014

-gmscore/search bug fixed (reverted)

-updated Nova Launcher

-updated build.prop

-dirty flash is fine (wipe caches, flash, reboot)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] elsocplayer:
Any way to add a torch quick setting toggle to this ROM? I would appreciate any guidance to do it.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Spacemonkie4207:
Gravity Box xposed module. Has many different toggles including torch.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] BoboBrazil:
Thanks for the update. How are you liking the OPO?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Danvdh:
Due to tax reasons and yellow screen issue I didn't risk it. Keeping s4 as my daily
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] BoboBrazil:
Ahh ok. I have another one plus one coming. This is gonna be the last chance I give it. If it has yellow too I'm done with them. S4 is really my favorite phone ever. It does pretty much everything well enough right now.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] guyverzero:
This. I think the only phone on the market that I'd take over the S4 right now is MAYBE the G3, if it had a great GPE rom. The OPO is good too, but it really is just too big at that point for me. That could change next week with whatever Motorola announces, but right now I'm pretty sure I won't be getting a new phone until 2015. I'm sure the Nexus this year is gonna be good, but unless it has over 128gb internal storage or a micro SD slot, it's of no use to me (right now I have about 73gb of music, but have it compressed to about 55gb on my phone).

I just wish Samsung would go more minimal on the front. I don't even care about the back, I'm fine with the plastic. I just hate the huge logo and the silver throwing off the design. I like what Moto, Google, and LG are doing with the black slate and no distractions. I'm hoping someone next year can pull off a Sharp-like design with no bezels and go all black too. That, coupled with a 4.5-5 inch screen would be the dream, as far as exterior looks go. But as far as software is concerned, the phone really is just about perfect thanks to Dan.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] wendellc:
Nvm
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Danvdh:
safe to say I will note update GPE 4.4.4 anymore, I have a feeling users will run this even when Android L is live (I expect it to be buggy to begin with)

can't quite believe this battery life i'm getting

stock kernel btw, I use greenify on mostly everything except for Acdisplay and LMT launcher.

no more updates for 4.4.4, The rom is rock stable
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] fj@xda:
This rom is exactly what I want,good job,Dan!:good:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] ezinex:
It's the best ROM 4.4.4 available. I come from Resurrection, FoxH and Omega and trust me, it has the best battery life using greenify (as you commented). Great work!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] invisiblewave:
Absofrigginlutely! I'm running the KT kernel with no problems, and my subjective estimate is that battery usage is close to half what it was with any of the TW roms I've tried (including stock). It also seems to charge much faster, which I don't entirely understand. I've been using ktweaker to optimize charging and to test my various cables and power adapters, and the variation between different cables is huge. With the right cables and adapters, and the assistance of ktweaker, it's not hard to double your average charging efficiency.

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Is there any way to block calls with this stock dialer?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] lordcheeto03:
Out of curiosity, system apps and all? I only ask because I already freeze the system apps that I know what they do and never ever use and I already greenify almost every user app except for 2 or 3. At 2 hrs screen on and 14 hrs powered on I'm lucky to be above 30%... and that's staying in airplane mode when not in use.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] blk_jack:
Wireless / wifi signal strength (and reception), screen brightness and the actual apps you run have typically a much bigger impact on your battery.

In low signal areas I find my battery life sometimes half of what I'll get if I'm at home on wifi all day.

You'll also notice not a lot of app use in that screenshot. If you play a 3d game for an hour you'll see a 30+% drop from that alone.

Facebook and Google Now also traditionally can cause massive drain.

That said, I've found battery life with this ROM to be very solid. Just remember that a single screenshot without context or details around app use shouldn't be seen as a definitive indication that you're doing something drastically different or wrong.

My tablet lasts half a month on a single charge. I also disable wifi when sleeping, have half a dozen apps installed on it and use it for maybe an hour total during those two weeks. Apples to oranges. :)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] invisiblewave:
I haven't had to resort to Greenify to get excellent battery life. I'd guess you've probably got one rogue app causing a problem, in my case it was Tune In Radio, which even Greenify didn't help with. To prevent it eating battery I had to stop the background bluetooth service it always left running. Even CandyCrush doesn't eat battery on this rom like it used to on others.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] lordcheeto03:
I know that there are a lot of variables at play and comparing my stats to just the screenshot of the battery pages is pretty useless; I was more asking out of curiosity. Even with my personal stats I quoted, I'm not displeased with them at all, so please don't take it that I'm not happy at all with the battery life!

While at work, my phone is in airplane mode except for my two 15 minute breaks and my 30 minute lunch... I get full bars of LTE and all I really do is browse random sites with Chrome. Other than my breaks, my screen is off and airplane mode is on; no GPS, NFC, sync, WiFi, nothing. On the way home I turn off airplane mode. Once I get home, I get literally no service the moment I step foot inside the house, so airplane mode comes back on, WiFi comes on, and I start SipDroid. My brightness stays between 30-50%,

But yeah, I have to agree that this is the most rock-solid all-around ROM for the S4 out there.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] blk_jack:
SIP eh.. That might be holding wakelock actually. I've been using betterbatterystats for years now and I've always found it does a good job of reporting apps that are abusing wakelock and draining my battery.

Anyway I wasn't trying to single you out; there are just a lot of users on XDA under the impression that there's a few magic settings out there to increase your battery 10 fold. In reality it's never that simple.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] lordcheeto03:
Even without SIP it's pretty close to the same. I don't worry about Google Now; I don't use the feature and I don't like the Google Home so I just go ahead and remove Google Search and do what Skipjack's guide in General says to do; remove everything that has to do with talk or gtalk from the Google Services Framework... Facebook though, that may be a possibility because I use it pretty frequently; although I have nothing set up to sync with FB and it's greenified on top of that...

I really think it's the battery; when I first got it I could pull almost 3 days with 3+ hrs screen time before I needed to charge. That was with nothing other than being rooted. No bloat removed, stock kernel, etc. After a night of 8 hours of sleep I would drop no more than 2%. My setup is basically the exact same apps wise as back then, but I can't do anything even close to what my battery life was for the first 1-2 months!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Danvdh:
just like on my PC I like to keep minimal applications running in the background or on start up, greenify with boost mode makes this extremely easy, think of it like an iPhone sandbox that you actually have control over, one reason those phones experience very good battery life is the fact that no app is allowed to maintain an ongoing process in iOS unlike Android, with greenify we can control this. I stick to just /data/apps as System apps being hibernated is overboard and potential harmful, It allows me to keep some apps that are useful but otherwise annoying with their ongoing processes (facebook, google search) at bay

on my Nexus 7 I get the same deal as you, you covered it just by saying disable wifi when sleeping, thats the trick right there to amazing battery life on a tablet :D

I did what I could with this firmware, We are really saving a good deal of battery with the autobrightness values, Samsung had their own array in the resources and it wasn't very "conservative", Minimum brightness in a pitch black room actually hurt the eyes which is never good. I understand everyone will experience different results and I've built this ROM as light as possible, I'm sure it will perform well for a user who keeps GPS on all the time and Google Now but they shouldn't expect to see 6 hour screen time on full cycle charges like I'm able to achieve
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] HampTheToker:
Doesn't it just irk the hell out of you when you use a friend's or family member's PC and they have 30 apps running in the taskbar?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] PENKO956:
this rom and googy kernel are a great combo. since kt is mia for a while ive been using googy kernel and I am very impress with the results.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] tech9iner:
Amen bro.. Reason I have up being windblows tech support for family and peers at the end of crap Vista 'reign'
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Spacemonkie4207:
Lol, I'm pretty sure Microsoft apologized for Vista.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] lbhocky19:
does this ROM really not support moving apps to SD?... or am i retarded
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] nivekx9:
Just download an app for it
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] gruuvin:
Internal Storage "Total space" report

I just rooted my phone for the first time and chose this ROM to install (have done my tablets before but not the phones I rely on), and I must say:

THANKS to all you diligent and helpful developers for making this such a simple transition!! I didn't have to use ADB or a USB cable for any of the process of rooting, flashing TWRP or swapping ROMs!

So my question:

Before with the stock T-Mobile 4.3 ROM my Internal Storage "Total space" reported 16G (for my SGH-M919 16GB SGS4), but now with that stock ROM, data, cache all backed up to my external SD card and then full wiped and this ROM flashed from the zip file also stored on the external SD card, the Internal Storage "Total space" reported is 9.72 GB. Where is my other 6.28GB?

thx!!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] invisiblewave:
Has your available space changed? Maybe the TMO rom includes all the other partitions in the total, recovery, radio, etc?? The difference in the size of the rom is ~1.6gb. Even if this rom weren't as good as it is, it'd be worth running just for the reduced size of all the backups I keep!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] gruuvin:
Before loading this ROM, I did move my backup and this KTU84P zip to the external SD card, so it should not take up any of my 16GB internal space.

Yeah, I do have more space available now, which is great, but the reporting is different, where 4.3 reported the entire 16.00 GB as "Total space" and how it is all allocated, Android 4.4 reports only 9.72 GB as "Total space", which isn't correct--that's a subtotal once some stored space is subtracted, and what has been subtracted isn't even reported (ROM, bootloader, recovery, and whatever else?). Whatever it is, it would be better if it were reported. Has anyone brought this up before? I'm not implying that this is an issue specific only to this ROM, since when I look on my friend's pure stock S4 with GPE for AT&T (not rooted), he has the same bogus report of "Total space" but in his case he has 12.65 GB Total space.

I'd like to get rid of as much of the 6.28 GB of stuff that I can (that is not being reported), since I likely don't need a lot of it. I suppose I could reboot into TWRP and see what is what.

Anyway.... thought I would bring it up here in case this is something worth discussing, or has already been discussed ad-nauseum, in which case I could go fork myself, and find some solace elsewhere! :)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] invisiblewave:
I have the Sandisk storage app installed, and that reports the same as the Settings. I seem to recall reading somewhere that the real storage available on a 16gb GS4 is something around 9.7gb.

Edit: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.kuder.diskinfo

It seems the 9.7gb partition is /data. /system is 2.7gb and /cache is 2gb. That leaves a little bit for boot & radio. It's possible, quite likely I'd think, that the official GPE phone is partitioned differently with a much smaller system partition and larger data, which would explain the 12.65gb. I guess Samsung prefer to put the most optimistic spin on theirs.....
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] gruuvin:
Thx man.... looking at DiskInfo here too..... in settings we can set "Expert mode" to give a bit more insight" (which I think you did).

Looking at my friend's phone with DiskInfo:

On the stock GPE ROM for AT&T we have this for System

System = 1.1 GB

Cache = 714 MB

But on our T-Mobile SGH-M919 (like you already pointed out):

System = 2.7 GB

Cache = 2 GB

(all other partition size comparisons equal (unmounted, device mapper, tmpfs partitions))

A difference of 2.9 GB on the sgh-M919 for all the extra bloat!

It is tempting to downsize the System and Cache partitions and add the reclaimed capacity to upsize the Data partition
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] ShinySide:
I'm not sure that's correct. Reason I say this is because I know gpe owners that run touchwiz and even debloated touchwiz is 1-1.2 GB while zipped. And of course unzipped even bigger. Probably 1.4-1.7 gb and all but 9-12mb for the boot.img of that is extracted to the system partition
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] gruuvin:
Which isn't correct?

What I posted was partition size--not how much of each of those partitions are actually used.

Doing it again with more info:

On the stock GPE ROM for AT&T we have this:

System = 780 MB used out of 1.1 GB Total (342 MB free)

Cache = 22.5 MB used out of 714 MB Total (692 MB free)

But on our T-Mobile SGH-M919:

System = 522 MB used out of 2.7 GB Total (2.1 GB free)

Cache = 39 MB used out of 2 GB Total (2 GB free)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] invisiblewave:
That looks right to me, it's exactly what I expected. Doubtless it's possible to alter your partition table, should you be willing to risk it. Give it a try and let us know if it works!!:p
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] ShinySide:
1.1gb for system because i9505G NF3 system.img is 1.2gb in img form