yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] _Sofos_:
It's 2 a.m. here and I've got to get up early so sorry for not clearing up abit the log before posting it but it has some interesting stuff except the codecs error that are all over the place, shows some errors about a partition that is read only and cannot be written?

Anyway freeze happened after opening bsplayer, you'll see it in the log..

Log here
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] s3icc0:
freezes

Hi it seems the freezes are probably caused by AIO gapps package, so here is the list of apps which are not present in minimal gapps and are removed in my own package of AIO gapps (some or one of them is causing the freezes):

/system/app/ facelock.apk,geniewidget.apk, googleears.apk, googlehome.apk, googletts.apk, plusone.apk

My friend was angry because the freezes so he switched back to touchwizz and I am not going to flash any of the above apps cos i dont like them, so if anyone will try removing one by one to find out which is doing the freezes I am pretty sure we can eliminate this issue soon.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] Bejda:
I have a heavy usage of my device running exclusively SlimKat since about two weeks with AIO gapps pack without a single system app or stuff removed but i don't suffer of any freezes.

Not a proof that nothing in AIO gapps or rom's stock system could be involved though and i swear I'm not the "Me?No bugs at all" guy ;) just my current experience :)
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] s3icc0:
I believe you :) lets ask someone who is suffering with freezes to remove those few and give feedback after some time of usage, maybe the problem is not global or you have these installed but you are not using the one which causes this - but you can tell us if you use all or only some :)
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] jeiem21:
Music not recognizable on extSD Card using PowerAMP Music Player

Help on this. This rom is very flawless, but I had a problem with my music on memory card/extSD card which cannot be recognized on it. :(

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To add up on this. Poweramp showed that extsdcard is unmounted but i can access it via file manager or picture gallery. :(
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] s3icc0:
I have all my music on external SD and I am using poweramp - no problem here. Make sure that poweramp is setup to see sd card (e.g. I always select only /Music/ folder on ext sd card to prevent listing of ringtones and stuff in the library
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] Jsilver73:
Thing is though, I removed all of them, and I'm still getting freezes banghead, all though the frequency has dropped dramatically they are still there :(
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] s3icc0:
:( then I don't understand anything.

As I am no developer I can only say users with any kind of problems should send me their phones and I will perform clean install for them :cyclops:

I stop talking about freezes right now! :cool:
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] Jsilver73:
What's your address lol :laugh:

And if it's any consolation even broodplank himself is reporting freeze on his own rom! So this bug is definitely not rom/kernel specific.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] s3icc0:
Czech republic but i have also one very skilled friend in london if u want :) (not saying you are not skilled):)
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] kantjer:
But can apparently be minimized. For the first time since starting to use SlimKat I'm now 5 days freeze free.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] Jsilver73:
Hey kantjer, I realise you have posted lots about this already, but may be (when you have time) you could add to the op all the steps you have taken to get freeze free, then users can try them out and see if it works for all.

Oop! Wrong thread, I meant op of your ssk thread of course :cowboy:
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] nick123ablxx32:
smooth and quick ..... awesome ROM
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] kantjer:
Mainly the animation timing tips I posted on my OP and my kernels settings.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] s3icc0:
well ... as I mentioned b4 .. I have animation on set to 1x ... (I always use GPU rendering for 2D)
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] _Sofos_:
I tried to use usb otg and didn't work, any ideas?

Probably something needs to be added in platform.xml again but this time for usb1 etc and not simply for external storage I guess?

Edit: Nvm, found a solution.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] vicentix:
Big trouble

Hi everybody,

I'm actually a S3 user with Slimkat Rom. I got a brand new S4 i9505 but when flash is done, impossible to call anybody ...

I got a black screen, phone seems to be freezed and on the receiver screen i's written "We actually accept only US numbers" ?????????

On call history it's written same !!!!

Any Idea ? The phone is brand new and i'm a little hummmmmmmm ... disapointed !
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] s3icc0:
I am now having this message for unknown incomming numbers ... but I can accept and call like usual
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] Formhault:
Whaaaaat?!
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] s3icc0:
Today I noticed when unknown number (not saved in my contacts) is calling me it says "the US numbers thing", but nothing serious for me ...
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] Formhault:
Open Phone, go to Settings and uncheck "People lookup" and "Reverse lookup". They're for US / Canada anyway. See if that helps.

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Hey, [MENTION=1584483]vicentix[/MENTION]! Where did you get your phone from? If it's one of the most recent batches, it probably has the region lock thingy. Which means that if the phone's coming from the US, you must insert a US SIM in it first.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] s3icc0:
I was thinking it will be connected - but it used to work before ... sensing another EU bull**** :D
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] vicentix:
Big problem ....

Not at all,

My phone was working fine ... before ...

When i flash Fyrom rom, call is ok but camera sucks, with SlimKat, each time i want to call or i receive one, i got black screen and the phone freeze. But camera is OK ....

I want to cry ... lol

In fact, when i make a call, my S4 is freezed and is the receiver who have "Actually only accept US numbers" on his screen. I'm little troubled by that. Any idea ?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] kantjer:
Go to Phone settings and disable all the lookup options.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] vicentix:
pb ...

Somebody could send me a link to region unlock my phone in case of ?

Thx

I've desactivated all and it's same, black screen with no sound, phone seems to be freeze. I can switch to main page but it still like no call launched ....

The phone call well but no sound emmited
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] Formhault:
Not sure I can help you with that. But if you say it worked fine before flashing thiS ROM, I don't know...

Try to flash CyanogenMod and see if that helps.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] measel:
strange unknown notification sound

SEMI-SOLVED! Please read!

I still get this error. Circumstances are: Writing a message in Whatsapp or Pushbullet and maybe other interactions. The longer I wait, the more notification sounds i get. New logcat attached.

OK, I found out what the problem is:

My mobile always rests on my purse when next to the computer. When I want to write a text or do anything on the mobile I (of cours) pick it up and when finished, put it back on my purse. So, what is in my purse?? Credit Cards and other stuff, THAT HAVE RFID TAGS!!!!

So the phone wanted to read the NFC/RFID tags each time I put my phone back. Unfortunately it seems to save each time its reads a tag and combined with the fact that I had no app linked to the event "READ NFC" I got kind of an error sound from the phone (or multiple).

PLUS I guess that sound file is even 'broken' or has a really bad quality therefore I got the error logs about the sample rate problem.

That was harder to figure out than one would think! :)

(BTW: My buddy next to me tried it and for him the naviagtion app Navigon opened instantly due to lack of alternatives).

I think that could be improved system-wise: Give a notification or a warning, what is happening!! At least optimise the sound quality of that warning because it suffers from severe audio clipping. ;)
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] ph3n0mII:
Hey whats up everyone?

I have 2 of the i9505 models, manufactured ~7 months apart, and I haven't had any freezes or reboots or anything like that on this build yet.

I did have few freezes in some of the previous builds though, but it was always either when using skype, taking a photo/video, or during phonecall, and it happened a lot more when i was testing KT and alucard kernel's a few times.

I noticed nobody really ever mentions whether they have the i9500, i9505, or i9506.

Anybody here on the i9505 model getting freezes, whether it be short or long pauses or entire device lockups?

If so, and perhaps even regardless of model, maybe the s4 has different cpu groups? thats the only somewhat obvious thing i can think of, off the top of my head that hasn't been mentioned yet.

There was a similar situation a few years back, a big mystery for a few months with freezes and random reboots and such, back when i had my i9100, using dorimanx kernel.

If i recall correctly, it turned out to be a voltage table problem, caused by different cpu groups..

Even if this has absolutely nothing to do with the aforementioned problem, might there still be the possibility of some other slight hardware variation..perhaps a slightly different model component? something like that... i'm out of my depth here really, just speculating..some suggestions to consider. :)

Either way, there has to be something..a common denominator..to explain why some people get it and some don't..maybe they all have the same after-market app, or use a particular setting somewhere even?

I had no freezes with the minimal gapps, nor now that i'm using the AIO gapps.

I froze a lot of apps (images attached below), but had no problems in the 2 days of heavy use before freezing them.

Peace :cowboy:
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] s3icc0:
100% agreed ... Too many complaints but no approach to find root cause ...
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] vicentix:
Big pb

Hi everybody,

Problem solved, i've flashed again Stock rom, unroot, re-root, reflash and now it seems to be ok .... Strange ...
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] ph3n0mII:
Maybe theres an app, or a 'somewhat easy' way to export a list of all installed, and running apps, perhaps indicate which ones (if any) are disabled, and perhaps also export a table of system settings, taking privacy into consideration of course, then people could submit their system info if they wanted to, and sometimes, at least for some problems, we might find the cause quicker, instead of just relying on the dev team to read logs and wade through pages of mind-numbing code, sometimes without even owning or knowing a great deal about the device they're trying to troubleshoot.

Once upon a time, in a far away land, I had a galaxy S2 and was using cyanogenmod with the legendary dorimanx kernel.

For a few weeks at one stage, there were a few builds that caused a pandemic where peoples /data partition would become corrupted, with orphaned inodes and such.

Eventually it turned out to be a problem with some governor or scheduler, but while they were investigating, I accidentally discovered that instead of it taking up to a few days for the problem to occur, if I had 'chat heads' enabled in FB messenger, with the specific version at the time, the problem would occur within 2 hours of a fresh wipe install, reliably reproducible.

After the problem was fixed, i tested out the old problematic kernel builds with the newer FB messenger...it would take a few days for /data to become corrupted with chat heads on.

So, um..yeh..

Apologies if this seems OT, I'm just tying to spark up a higher sense of collaboration..lets all band together a bit more sometimes hey ;)

Peace
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] brunodu91:
Hi

When do you think to including the New theme engine on slim Kat?

Thx

Envoyé de mon S4, via tapatalk 4 Vip .

Slimkat 4.4.2 v5.4, Kernel stock , buzz launcher , modem ET bootloader NC4.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] Jsilver73:
Hey tylog - did you get any news yet on a fix for the battery percentage not changing colour whilst on charge? (until that is before it gets to 90%
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] Technical:
When it's ready :D
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] brunodu91:
Yesssssssss! Cool THX great! Wonderful! It's so lovely!

Envoyé de mon S4, via tapatalk 4 Vip .

Slimkat 4.4.2 v5.4, Kernel stock , buzz launcher , modem ET bootloader NC4.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] geyce76:
Ok now I try to my jogging with KT kernel... Same problem! BT fc, once have this it is impossible to run it again (same with Wi-Fi) without reboot the phone.... This is really strange!

Envoyé de mon GT-I9505 en utilisant Tapatalk
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] katze1123:
sometimes my phone freezes and later it blocks only. then i unlock and it comes back to normality ....
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] corb06:
Random Freezing - Solution?

I just installed Kernel-Alucard-V2.6.7g. (Relased today)

When I was reading the first post, I saw a line at the end where it said:

"PS. DELETE /data/.alucard folder before flashing new kernel."

I have never seen this instruction before so I went ahead with Solid Explorer and deleted the folder.

Then rebooted to Philz recovery and cleared cache, wiped dalvik, flashed the latest kernel 2.6.7g, reboot.

Since reboot I have had 0 freezes, and I have really been trying to creating one by doing lots of random stuff. So far so good...

Update:

Just had several freezes so still at square 1! Dammit!
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] Jsilver73:
Lol - I'm so with you man, I'v given up counting the amount of times I've thought I found the ultimate solution. This issue is present in other aosp roms, so I think this is aosp code problem rather than anything to do with rom/kernel.

What I can say though is that the frequency and severity for me has reduced write a lot so happy for that at least :)
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] kewinhdorff:
unable to connect to camera ?

hey the times i have been using Cyanogenmod i used to have the bug that made my camera unable to connect. while using apps lika snapchat and then my camera app wouldn't work untill i rebooted my phone!

is this bug present in this rom ?

how do you guys think are the benefits with this rom between cyanogenmod and slimkat :) ?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] ph3n0mII:
As far as I can remember, those camera problems did affect SlimKat as well, but I think they were all fixed several builds ago.

I don't use snapchat, but a few other apps like FB messenger and skype don't the have camera problems like they previously did.

Some advantages SlimKat offers over cyanogenmod are:

Out of the box, SlimKat is generally a bit faster and more responsive.

SlimKat has a lot of extra customisation options and features built in.

To get these extra features on cyanogenmod, you'd have to flash several unofficial/unsupported mods which aren't updated as frequently as cyanogenmod is (potentially causing hard-to-diagnose problems) and you'd also have to use xposed framework, often with several modules, which are also not always updated as frequently to be compatible with the rom, and which can often have their own set of issues, depending on which modules and settings you choose in each module, so things can sometimes get messy.

Slimkat only has stable and weekly 'unstable' builds.

Cyanogenmod has stable, experimental, release candidate, snapshot, milestone, and nightly builds, with a few days or weeks between nightly builds for some devices occasionally.

With SlimKat, each new weekly build has a higher chance of being more stable than a nightly because it gets tested a bit before release, though the stable builds aren't always 100% stable.

Cyanogenmod nightly builds are blind-built, commits are almost always added without physical on-device testing, then they wait for user feedback to see if something is fixed or broken in the new nightly, though cyanogenmod stable builds are more likely to be 100% stable, but when both these roms reach a 'final stable' build, they are just as stable as each other.

If your a flashaholic, either stay with cyanogenmod, or use slimkat with a KT or alucard kernel or try SlimSaberKat ;)

In my mind, I refer to SlimKat as 2 things: "cyanogenmod on steroids" and "cyanogenmod done properly" :cool:

I used to love cyanogenmod with all my heart, but they sold out and made some horrible decisions and subsequently lost most of their good long-time developers, so it got pretty s**t after CM10.2.

Thats what initially lead me to search for a better rom, and thats how I found my beloved SlimKat :victory:

I still test and keep track of cyanogenmod from time to time, but I cant keep it on my device for more than an hour due to excessive cringing.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] Chrisuk80:
Same here but it calls fine... Just says we currently only accept US numbers and then main underneath it

OK I've disabled the look ups.. See if this helps
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] steveria79:
Guys, can Not automatic Play Store Update with newest Store!!?? can help?

SlimKat 5.4
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] wonsky21:
I don't really understand what you want to do... But if you want to set auto updates of your ap just tap on Automatic App-updates and set if you want to update only with wifi or any time (wifi, data).
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] kantjer:
Auto update hasn't been working for me for some time now. I don't care I just check manually once a day.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] latino147:
I was about to post that yesterday but i forgot. I've never seen apps autoupdate since on slimkat on the s4. It took me a while to notice ;)
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] ph3n0mII:
Auto update works for me still, but takes up to a few days to auto update since v4.8.17, usually I check every day or 2 and theres updates available, but occasionally i catch them auto-updating still :)

Maybe the auto-updating frequency has changed recently for testing or to reduce server load, something like that, but more likely a bug.

Anyone tried Play Store v4.8.20 yet? I haven't because I don't wanna lost play store TRDS :)
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] wonsky21:
I didn't notice, as I check updates manually too... :)
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] katze1123:
Anybody??
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] wonsky21:
If you'll read few pages back you'll see it is a known problem. Everybody try to find out what causes freezes, but no luck for now...

GT-I9505 | SlimKat 4.4.2 UNOFFICIAL build 5.x by kantjer
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] kewinhdorff:
thanks alot for your very good answer. it clarified alot of things for me :)

i have been a cm user when i had me samsung galaxy s2 for 2 years so it is kinda sad to leave it for now. eve though i had some problems with it i liked it more than TW. but for now i might be better of with SlimKat. it seems more stable reading through the comments.so i will try it out i think if i dont like it and get bugs ill go back to TW :)

BTW is it safe to flash the weekly builds over the stable builds?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] pitastrudl:
yes, perfectly safe, they're pretty much rock solid
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] kewinhdorff:
man fast answer :D well thanks ill try it out ! i guess :)

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where can i find the MD5 sums ? i like to check those before i flash

EDIT: NEVER MIND I FOUND A SHA1 APP :)
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] ph3n0mII:
Dirty flashing any newer SlimKat build can be fine for some people sometimes, but theres a lot of variables at play usually... its alot like CM really, your 'usually' better off with a full wipe, I do personally.

When a new builds hits the street, you could always wait for other user's dirty-flash feedback here and make a decision from there each time.

I too started off on cm with my S2..some golden memories there, great devs, great community..i still keep in touch with some of tha boyz :)

After a full wipe, i've got my 'setting everything up from scratch' routine down to about 45 mins now.

On SlimKat, it can take you quite a long time to be aware of every possible setting..I still find a new one occasionally hehe, and not all settings' descriptions or explanations are always obvious right away.

Best of luck
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] Jsilver73:
I have been dirty flashing sk and now slimsaberkat (straight over my old sk) since January ;) I have done a couple of clean system installs including formatting to f2fs but always kept my data via restore data in twrp. I did try a complete restore from scratch and importing all user apps/data from tb this week but nothing was any different from dirty flashing at the end of the day :)
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] s3icc0:
Q: tools for formating ext sd to exFAT and intsd + other partitions to f2fs are in standard TWRP?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] geyce76:
Up please

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[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] kewinhdorff:
i what is f2fs actually? flash to friendly system or something i have read somewhere but i don't really know the benefits of it:)

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just installed and installed all the apps and set up the settings as i wanted. hade a little problem with finding where to give my phone root acces but at last i found it changed the apps and adb to apps only. i don't know why apps and adb setting didn't work..

well i am pleased with the rom so far. it is really fast and it seems stable i haven't had any forcecloses or anything yet.

feels good to be back on a customrom ! good work SlimKat Team!
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] Jsilver73:
No - don't know about exFAT - but twrp is modified by kt, link in my signature ;)
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] latino147:
Did you read this topic?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2038273
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] geyce76:
I will read this!

Envoyé de mon GT-I9505 en utilisant Tapatalk
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] kewinhdorff:
bluetooth

one problem/bug just occurred.

playing music from Spotify through Bluetooth. the music stutters from time to time and lags with kind of delay echo...

will this be fixed ? i am on 5.4 build i9505
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] s3icc0:
Playback through bluetooth is problematic ... Setting high priority helps a bit not sure it can be changed for spotify
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] kewinhdorff:
setting high priority ? how do i do that ? never heard of it xd
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] s3icc0:
U can set it e.g. in poweramp .... Unfortunatelly nothing alike for spotify
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] kewinhdorff:
oooh i see i thought it was some kind of built in option to set apps to high priority ^^