yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] nestoh:
This ROM is flawless. There's honestly nothing wrong with it. For others that are barely getting into this ROM. Try it out. Everyone who's having "issues" are their bad.

The sensor for calls not turning the screen on - just clean it, its been asked over a thousand times. Do research and look back in this thread.

Okay, Google - it's not integrated because obviously it kills your battery big time which is why the Dev took that bigger interest in mind and removed it.

Aside from those "defects" this ROM is flawless like I said. Any other questions LOOK BACK on this thread cause most likely, about 99.9% of the questions anyone else will continue to ask, has been answered a few posts behind.

Also, don't forget to thanks the Dev for he's not getting paid to do this and technically this his ROM that he's sharing with all of us.

Thanks Dan.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] timoshina:
Hey guys! This was probably discussed a million times but how can i get CRT effect on this rom? I've already read this part

"-CRT disabled in favor of the fade effect, much nicer on the eyes and better on battery life"

I just really like this "old TV" effect and i can't find any files in original post. Can someone please send me a link with this tweak? Thanks ;)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] dawgdoc96:
Has anyone else had trouble with getting a GPS fix? My signal keeps getting lost. Tried Gps fix app, and not getting satellite signal. Love the ROM otherwise! Thanks.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] fj@xda:
Perfect ROM，no bugs at all here，thanks Dan!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] nestoh:
You can use Gravity Box.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] timoshina:
Oh man, thank you!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] JohnnyAn:
Basband MDL after flash

I odined the NB4 stock onto my phone, rerooted, then flashed this ROM, but my baseband says MDL again. Is that just the rom showing the wrong baseband, or did it change the bootloader back to MDL?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] nivekx9:
Flash it again, sometimes it doesn't stick. Are you flashing the full firmware or the modem?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] timoshina:
This is my second day with this ROM. And the first time I installed a custom rom on galaxy s4 because i thought stock was good, until it started to be slow as hell. So i can't be any happier right now with a phone!!! It's just sharp and supersonic fast! Even with all the heavy tweaks such as gravity box and tons of my apps. Everything just works without any lags. The only thing i got used to stock keyboard, but i found an amazing lg g3 keyboard that someone ported. I don't know how a custom rom can work that well, all i can see is that HUGE amount of work was done for this rom! Just wanna say thank you, [MENTION=4830253]Danvdh[/MENTION]! ?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] JohnnyAn:
The full stock nb4 firmware. I odined the massive 2.6 gig tar, and the baseband read nb4. Then I used towelroot to root, flashed the latest cwm touch (which I later read should have tripped a knox counter, but nothing shows on the dl screen), flashed the ROM, and now the baseband reads MDL.

I also read somewhere that not powering down before entering dl mode, just restarting the phone and entering dl mode, can cause odin flashes to not stick. But would NB4 stick for a couple resets, the disappear as soon as I flash this ROM?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] nivekx9:
It shouldn't stick and suddenly go away. Try to reflash again (beware of your sdcard data) then instead I'd towel root try to flash a recovery in Odin (that's basically rooting it) then flash a rom
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] JohnnyAn:
Cool, thanks for the advice. I'll try that all when I get home from work (unfortunately my desk at work is where my data doesn't work after flashing this ROM :( ). I'm also assuming you meant "instead OF towelroot, flash recovery". :)

Do you think it would be a bad idea to odin nb4 firmware, odin cwm, flash the ROM, make sure it sticks, then advanced restore just the data partition from my current build? I feel like that shouldn't affect anything since it shouldn't overwrite new info from a back up of the same ROM. Theoretticaly, backing up before doing the data restore would allow me to just go back to freshly flashed AOSP 4.4.4 on the NB4 firmware, right?

Man... I stop developing for android for just a year and I already feel like I don't know anything again :(. Oh well, once I get this fixed, I probably won't have the motivation to take the time to mess with anything again for another year. :\
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] guyute74:
Issue with encryption

Before I go the odin route let me briefly explain the situation I find myself in. I had checked who disk encryption a month or so ago and haven't updated the rom since then. Today - felt the need to flash. It would take on CWM and I assumed it was because of the encryption. Maybe silly me? I went in to factory reset from the android settings and that kept taking me to CWM and then back to enter my passcode. I updated to PHILZ and then things got all wonky. I again wiped and reset from there and after I flash a rom I'm back to the enter your passcode page and then... nothing. Tada!

I'm downloading the stock sgh_m919-UVUAMDB for ODIN but have 44 mins to try other things before I go that route.

Thoughts?

Can I format a partition manually in Philz to clear the encryption key? Maybe this isn't even the issue.

Thanks.

long time lurker... long time flasher... random poster.

ODIN'ed. Back at Touchwiz. Dang this looks old
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Dubardo:
I don't know if it's been mentionned or noticed, but cLock was sucking a good 10-15% of battery life in a 8h cycle. I don't even use it and it was clearly drawing power, a lot.

Any way to uninstall?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] HampTheToker:
Ummm.....Root Explorer...Titanium Backup...etc...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] ispot:
ROM Porting

Dan, would it be possible to port this ROM to the T-Mobile Galaxy Note3 SM-T900N? There aren't any AOSP ROMs available for the Note3 except Slim Kat which is also 4.4.4. I am addicted to your Google Edition and would love to see it on my Note3.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] nivekx9:
There's no Google edition for the note 3 therefore no Google edition Rom. You only got aosp man :(
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] gadabout:
S-View Issue

I searched through the forum, but did not see an answer or fix.

When I close the S-View case with the screen on; it does the correct function of showing the time and date in the window.

However, when I receive or make a call, and close the case, the window is blank. Usually it shows the hangup or answer

function with the cover closed in the window.

The previous ROM 6/27/14 works just fine. I have gone through the settings to see if I have missed something, but I don't think I have.

This really isn't a deal breaker for me. The ROM is just to good not to use.

Thanks.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] nivekx9:
[MENTION=4830253]Danvdh[/MENTION] I take it back. The boot animation really grew on me. I actually reboot sometimes to see it. Thanks bro! Loving it.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] 1range:
Looking for a potential solution...sgh m919 ...running on 4.4.4 7/17/14...stock kernel... baseband NB4.....When I'm on a call - it gets disconnected when a text, voicemail or other call comes through....any ideas?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] nivekx9:
I would clean flash. (Wipe everything...data, cache, dalvik, system)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] guyverzero:
I actually went back and put the last 4.4.2 rom on my phone, and aside from the wifi reboot problem (it gets stuck turning on about 1 of every 4 times...a reboot fixes it) it has been a lot better, battery wise. Just based on my normal usage (which is about the same, day in and day out. So, nothing benchmark wise, just real world stats) on the latest 4.4.4 rom I'd get around a 7-10% drain per hour depending on the day. With 4.4.2 I get around a 4-5% drain an hour, with the same performance. Now, obviously I haven't had as big of a sample size with 4.4.2 with numbers backing it up, but it does jive with what I remember using it for months, and that's that battery life was substantially better. Now, whether that's the fault of the software, the kernel, something else random...I have no idea, but at least in my experience the difference IS there.

With that being said, I'm gonna stick with the 5-19 release of 4.4.2 (last one put out) until a release of the newer software can match up. Shame that I'm gonna miss the stability improvements and new dialer of 4.4.4 (not to mention the really nice boot animation), but I really think Dan's 4.4.2 rom is the best Android experience I've ever had. Thank you for the continued development, if only your 4.4.2 release didn't exist, the 4.4.4 would be the best rom I've ever used. Either way, you rule!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] BoboBrazil:
I was on a build of 4.4.2 from February and the battery life was definitely much better in that build compared to 4.4.3 or 4.4.4. I've been thinking about going back myself.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] 1range:
Thanks, I've tried that...IDK maybe a hardware issue..
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] nivekx9:
Hmmm. Well idk. Try calling T-Mobile.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Danvdh:
I don't get it? I'm getting the exact same battery life I always have..

are you guys sure you don't have rogue apps with crappy updates running in the background

let me list a few

Google+

Google Search

Hangouts

BBM

Facebook

I'd suggest using greenify and hibernating these if you don't require push notifications, alot of the battery suck up is controlled by Google Services Framework and Google Play Services that get updated automatically, on 4.4.2 you will get this update and the battery will drain all the same
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] unit_three:
What saved my battery was turning off Scanning Always Available under Advanced WiFi Settings. It was night and day. That and using Battery Saving Mode for location instead of GPS (I just flip it on when needed).

Anyway, thanks for the awesome ROM. :good:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] ma678:
How can i greenify those google apps? Do I need a paid version because I don't see those on the list?

Thanks.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] guyverzero:
Well, I would think that since I used titanium, I'd be running the same "crappy updates" on both of them, thus get the same battery life (or lack thereof). I could be wrong of course, but that's how it seems to me. I tried hard to keep the configurations exactly the same once I decided I was gonna test the two. Same apps, same launcher, same icon pack, same settings (I only have one thing greenified, and that's Amazon's update checker).

Not claiming to know anywhere near as much about this stuff as you do, by the way. All I'm going on is my own personal experience here...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] aamir123:
What is a good alternative kernel for this ROM? I feel like I can get better battery life with a nonstock one and I've never had good luck with kt kernel (heat issues), and alucard seems to break GPS.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] nivekx9:
Ktkernel is good if you tweak it right
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] romhetman:
You can do it like this make the special filter on 3apps as I did look at the picture its marked by color you can do it in settings, then make a schedule like on the picture 1st one to freeze the filtered apps 2nd to defrost ! And when you don't need play store or gmail freeze that sht by simply taping on "run" the schedule to freeze...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] darazor:
You might try advanced task killer. I find it very easy to use. I have pretty much all non essential apps shut down when the screen is off. Very effevtive and easy to use.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] PENKO956:
after reviewing all my screenshots on battery life, I have come to the conclusion that this rom is amazing. been on this rom since day 1. all versions of rom 43,44,441,442,443, and now 444 all give me same battery around 14-18 hrs with 3-4hr of screen and about 1hr of talk time. yes of course i use my phone alot so if you wanna idle and claim 4 days of battery thats a different story. it all depends on your usage. I also hibernate mostly all Google apps, flash kt kernel, and remove any auto up dates or notification crap. at the end of the day this rom is way better that any tw rom will ever be imo. :cool:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] doat:
Is there any way we can get the lockscreen notifications on this rom? I think that would just make it the best rom out there.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] timoshina:
Hey guys. I really love this rom. However after using it a few day i noticed that i have a signal drop and it drives me nuts! :eek:When i make a call i can see data change from LTE to 3G and then after some time call drops. Also sometimes people can't reach me and their calls go to voicemail. Helps if i turn on and off Airplane mode.

Before installing this ROM, i had a stock rooted kitkat. As adviced, i wiped cache/system/dalvik, before flashing this ROM. I have TWRP 2.7.1.0.

I also noticed that call drops happen when signal is not at full, meaning in areas where coverage isn't so great. But with stock rom i never had any data/call drops before in any places. I'm not very good with basebands, kernel etc. but maybe i should flash a different kernel or something?

Please guys help me, especially [MENTION=4830253]Danvdh[/MENTION] ! How can I fix this?

I'm attaching system info. Thanks :angel:

P.S. on phone startup i get this message:

Recovery is not seandroid enfofcing

Set warranty bit :kernal

is it normal?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Chosen_on184:
Ok so I finally found what looks like a bug in this rom. Please let me know if this is just happening to me only.

Basically it involves incoming calls via bluetooth. If you are playing music through the bluetooth and you get an incoming call for whatever reason I cannot hear the caller and they cannot hear me. I have to hang up and call them back.

This only happens when music is playing through bluetooth, if no music is playing I can pick up and answer regular.

I finally realized this was the cause after it happened to me recently and the light bulb went off.

Has anyone experienced this ?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] nestoh:
I've used my Bluetooth headphones and have answered calls with no issues what so ever.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] rahlquist:
Danvdh,

Just wanted to pass this by you.

I have been using smart remote for a while, it works well. Recently one of the apps I use for controlling my directv equipment pulled their app from play. So I started looking for an alternative. I found one that had an interesting feature a volume plugin. So I could control my tv and DVR from one remote screen/app. To make a 2 day long story short, for whatever reason, his app works 100% fine on stock TW. It doesnt work properly on this ROM. You can see IR emissions from the blaster, but, it does nothing. The codes he is using are good because I harvested them from another app and I tested the app when I rolled back to stock. Then I rooted, installed TWRP, installed your 4.4.4. rom,, did initial setup and used installed his apps and no dice. The only possible thing I can see he has had issue with in the past was some sort of power management setting on some of the galaxy devices. So I know its your feeling this is an app issue and in a way it is, but its also a compatibility issue, and I cant find whats different between how your ROM handles the IR vs stock TW. On both roms its using the generic android IR driver.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] siliconaddict:
Unhappy with Autobrightness

Hi Dan. I am using your latest greatest 4.4.4 ROM. Love it, just 1 thing annoys me. Autobrightness keeps changing the brightness levels constantly, also when the environment illumination doesn't change. It's not the brighness levels, some may find the levels too low, or maybe too high, but I'm good with them. It is just the 'flickering' that annoys me. Any idea why this is? And how/if I can adjust that?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] PENKO956:
You are on the latest baseband which is nb4. this has come up before on the thread. basically running lte will give you high dBm meaning low reception in certain areas. just switch your preferred network type to GSM/WCDMA auto or preferred. your will see your single strength go up in areas where lte was low. really lte is a battery hog and only really needed when you are using it (internet). what you mention about people calling you and it going straight to voice mail is a factor when your single is very low where your network disconnect for a while. also in APNs i find epc.tmobile.com runs a tat faster that the lte apn imo. try it out!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] nestoh:
Yeah, same here +1
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] timoshina:
Hi! Thanks a lot for the detailed answer!!! I've searched this thread and xda forums for hours and I couldn't find a good answer. Maybe just missed it since u said it was mentioned before. ?

So I did exactly everything you said, and yes, a signal went straight to full 4 bars! Looks like apn also seems to work better. Now I understand how antena works) the only thing, I use internet a lot since I have unlimited. So, I do torrent downloads while at work and some other things. So I really can't use 3g for my needs, although it solves a signal loss problem. I just don't get it, why stock rom works fine and this one has signal problem?? Usually it suppose to change between the 2g/3g/lte automatically and never lose a signal, so why this rom has such a problem?

I looks like I got a solution for now. I found an app called "signal guard" that monitors a signal and if network gets disconnected, it repairs it right away. I'm gonna test it for a few days and see if it really works perfectly, so I can use it everyday and keep this rom. Damn, I've never had such perfect rom like this one before. Really hope this LTE problem will be solved in future rom update!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] timoshina:
I have a little question. Anybody has the same thing in messaging app like on a screenshot? Whenever I send a mesage, the date/time stamp will never appear, only shows "sending" status.

[IMG="screenshot"]http://i67.fastpic.ru/big/2014/0728/4f/f7896ec79b11ba3fcb1308e0e776db4f.jpg[/IMG]
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] rahlquist:
After working extensively with a dev for one of the affected remote apps it has been narrowed down to a problem with the API and a difference between KK and JB in how the IR API works. ( more info http://developer.samsung.com/androi...er-in-Android-version-lower-than-4-4-3-KitKat )

So you were 100% correct it is an app issue, however it is due in part to an OS change/bug fix to 4.4.3 and later code. Google fixed a bug and now the app devs have to change their apps.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Nickdroid86:
Does this app have the Samsung syncing features like stock, where I can sync my gallery with my Facebook, picasa and all that?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] doat:
How can I add the song track skip long volume button press feature is there an app or something I can get since this rom does not have it?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] imanoobfml:
Try Gravity box
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] doat:
Thank you very much I forgot about Gravity Box
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] BiggJurk:
I would assume that Ultra Power Saver needs a TW framework, is there anything similar for GE?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] nestoh:
I kind of went through the thread and I haven't seen anything about this so hopefully someone knows. I have an S-View cover, and it works with this ROM but to answer calls or to change the song, doesn't show up on the screen when the cover is on the screen, any work around for it?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] krazierokz:
give this a shot and report back if it worked http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2318101
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] nestoh:
Well thing is that the s-view cover does work when I close it, it shows me the time and date and all that on the little screen. So it isn't a sensor thing. It's just that when I get a call or I'm listening to music, the toggles to answer the call or change a song, don't appear. It stays on the clock and date display.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Danvdh:
won't ever be implemented, s-view is strictly for time and unlocking the phone, sadly the Googledialer is closed source and and Samsung can't implement it.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] nestoh:
Oh I see, well that makes sense, thanks Dan.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] joserblue:
I am using IR universal remote from the play store and it works flawlessly.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] The Apostle:
[MENTION=4830253]Danvdh[/MENTION]... I have loved your ROM over the past year but I just picked up a new phone. It will surely be hard to leave this GPE goodness but it was time to move on.

I was going to wait form the N6 until the rumors started flying around about Motorola making it a 5.9" device. So I went and picked up a G3.

If we put together a find for you to get the device will you join us? IF YOU BUY UT DAN WILL COME.....?

_______________________________________

sent from my mobile office while swerving down interstate 64. Since I cannot keep my eyes off the road to long, please excuse my typos.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] PiggySmalls:
I know it is kinda unorthodox to do this, but [MENTION=4830253]Danvdh[/MENTION] is definitely one of my favorite ROM devs. I would absolutely pitch in on this, as I ended up with a G3 as well.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] rahlquist:
Well fortunately so do this developers now. I wanted something that could control my directv DVR over wifi (my remotes are set to RF not IR due to line of sight issues) and my tv volume all in one remote. There are not many other (if any) apps that combine that feature set.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] BoboBrazil:
Have to say thanks too, but I'm in the same boat. I just ordered a 1+1 and I'm going to sell my s4. Well probably, I'm going to try out the 1+1 for a week first to see how I like it.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Danvdh:
Invite plz!! Never selling my s4 though as I plan to Dev this device to the very end of its cycle
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] BoboBrazil:
Haha, I'll give one for sure once they send me my invites to give out. Not sure how long that takes once you order. S4 is really a great device and knowing it will get L and probably another release after that is awesome. Never used a phone as big as a 1+1, so hopefully it's not too big. I've heard it works great on T-Mobile though.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] synahnew:
I just did a full wipe and installed the lasted build and I keep getting a message saying "Sign into network T-mobile" ... And My data not working??
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] BoboBrazil:
Check your pms.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] ShinySide:
Got another? :) ;)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] BoboBrazil:
Sorry, only had the one. Hopefully they give out some more soon.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] synahnew:
Why does the Wifi keep cutting in and out? Is it a kernel issue?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Danvdh:
Probably you're router. WiFi is fine here
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] dawgdoc96:
How often do routers go bad?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] packetdog:
Battery Life?

Hi Guys! Can I just say- GREAT ROM. :) I'm totally happy with it, super fast. Props! I've been running the latest 4.4.4 (7-17) release for the last week or so, and my battery life seems reduced. I used to get a day and a half out of a charge, but it's less than a day now. Wondering if this is happening to anyone else? Here's a screen shot of what I'm encountering, anything I can tweak to fix this up? Any ideas are appreciated.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] nivekx9:
Go to wifi, menu, advanced, and turn scanning always available off. Then go to location and make it device only. Then go to sync, and turn off all the ones that you don't need. And then greenify apps that are opening wake locks.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] synahnew:
No it's not since I have a R7000 router and about 7 things are connected to it as we speak including androids/iphones/ipads/etc.. And none of the the devices are experiencing this issue but this phone(This rom).. What else could it be?