[Galaxy S 4 General] Absolon:
Inventory

First,

I need to know if it's ok that I take the Project leader role here a bit? I have sat down and identified the things we need to even start and I have some pretty good idea.

But I can only be a Project leader if you let me. If I'm allowed to spread out the work. Else we can close this. I can't do this alone. It's too much work.

But I think that the work WE can do is the base that will benefit all rom-makes. Because this is the starting point that anyone that want to make a

rom has to start from.

The difference is that I want this to be here. In the open, and not at some closed webpage. I want all to benefit from what we do.

Either we do this openly or not at all.

And so you know. There will be a bit of work. I have my Unix knowledge and I run several Linux/BSD machines at home. I did a small calculation.

I have now been playing/then having it for getting bread on the table with Unix for 23 years.

I don't know everything. Far from. Even though I been working with it that long, the part I did as a consultant was within a certain part and I never learnt

other. Simply because I was hired for knowing just that part really well.

The problem with Unix (and why I use Unix is that everything is basically Unix, even though it called differently. It would be called Unix today if it didn't

happen to be a patent fight over the NAME. The one that held the patent of the name Unix wanted money for people to use it (it might have been SCO,

they tried to get money for anything they could. Really despise that company).

So instead of paying the companies invented their own names, Sun went for SunOS and then Solaris, Hp (HP-UX), IBM (AIX) etc.

So it's hard to say that Linux is not a Unix because it's not a Unix Unix (that doesn't exist anymore) but when I say Unix I mean the whole spectrum

of very very closely related OS to it, ok? So I will sometimes say Linux and can say Unix, but I mean basically the same.

The thing with Unix is that the learning curve is steep. You install it and have a black screen with a ">". It's a bit more easy now with Ubuntu (that I hate),

but it's better for you, that never worked with it to have something to "point and click". When it comes to the real work you will have to open up a

terminal anyway and TYPE command. See it a bit as a DOS-windows in your Windows.

There is two distinct flavors though. The one is BSD and the other is the Linux, bla bla. Those two are a fork that happened long ago and you tend

to feel like a newbie again, once you sit in from of a FreeBSD after being a homie on Linux because everything is different.

There is a standard basically on how to start up things. There is now a new thing that comes more and more that should be less conservative then

what has been the case the last 20 years but that is another thing. The Linux that Android is based on has a normal "init.d"-structure and that is

where the different scripts are that start up, in an order you decide, different parts of the system, or do what ever really. They are just scripts and

could write "Hello I9506!" on the screen if you would like that.

Did you all see the post I made about the i9506?

PLEASE ALL. I need to verify this so it's not some duckup from my part but I will do a odin today to be sure

Take a look at what I wrote: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=48320189&postcount=1402

Anyone here that tripped Knox? Anyone got any strange things?

We need to know this before making any attempt at all.

I don't cry wolf here. This is true. No bulltitting. I KNOW I had this.

If you look my sig, you might think I know has build a Faraday's cage around me and have a folio-hat while looking through a magnifying glass at my

monitor at a Youtube-video showing taped in a tv that was recorded by a CC-camera from a TV in the 80-ies about the (pick one):

Moon landings

Kennedy

Roswell

9/11

Ilumatnii/NWO

And I wish I where. But the phone is erratic and I really think it's tampered. Did someone get a notice with rule-updates? I didn't get it to this one

but I got it to Note 3.

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So in case that you let me lead the project here in the start and be able to have work that I can "assign", or I rather want to list work and have volunteers for it

.

Then I can say "Ok, test that then" etc. And we have a dialog that is open and never that someone feels forced over it, ok?

We need a BASE. Something to start from and we need to see what we have so this is the inventory part. What we have, where we start.

The first step

And I need someone that can do some deep probing for me of the hardware. We need to start comparing.

Can all do a *#1234# and post it?

I have:

AP: I9506XXUAMI3

CP: I9506XXUAMHD

CSC: I9506NEEAMI1

I noticed it only works on the original "Phone app".

This is what I think we need as a base to start with.

I9505

As close stock rom as possible. Now I saw that Hotfile was closed down (did a post about it) so I hope we get

Base

I9505 - Plain vanilla rom. As close we can get

I9506 - Depends here what you have. Here I would ask if someone has an unrooted and a rooted version.

Note 3 - I have an unrooted version. Anyone has a rooted? Knox tripped? I tried to root it with that Universal thing that doesn't trip know but it hangs.

This are the things we need to start with at least. Make nandroid-backups on them. When you have them I'll prepare a space for them on my g-drive

where you can upload them and then I can start to compare them.

Also, anyone with a Knox-tripped I9506. Please PM me. I got really strange behavior and I don't know if it's Knox or something else.

The ones with Note 3, did you get an "SELinux rules upgrade #16" a few days back? I didn't see that was an option to turn them off.

As I wrote in my other thread. My I9506 started to behave real strange. REALLY strange. There are a whole bunch of programs missing.

The are gone. I have 3 icons on them in launcher but they are just not there. So what gives?

Is this only me or is this something that we all get when we trip the Knox?

After I did a clean with the CleanMaster and removed the Knox apps, I can't get into settings, so I need to try a nandroid restore or in worst case

try to install a odin-version and reroot it. Or maybe play with it unrooted for a while.

This is serious things is this Knox-flag tripped something. I talked with my provider today about this.

So an inventory! What do we have for hardware to test on?

Things to investigate - Here I start list things that any of you can do. As I said. I can't do all and I have so much IRL that I shouldn't be here at all...

Hardware

We know it's closer to Note 3 then to 05. When I look at specs it seems like the same phone.

But I need a rooted Note3 to get the app that list ALL hardware, sensors etc, to compare it. An unrooted Note 3 will not get that access.

My

theory

I is that a BL from Note 3 will probably work but one from 05 will not.

But that need to be verified. And I need to see that Odin can reflash if we do something that hangs the phone.

This is the risk I will take.

What is on it?

Here I could start to compare. But I need backups of the phones!

If you happen to have any personal password for your wifi, I can give my word that I will overlook it.

Besides, what do I need it for? Not like I would come home to you and hack your Wifi ;)

So here is a list of things:

There is no source released on their webpage about the i9506 yet.

We don't have any "pre-knox" BL for this one.

Can someone check the Note 3 forum if there is some pre-knox. Did a 4.2.2 even existed or was it a 4.3 from the start?

And then backups of the partitions for comparison.

That is the first steps to even start to move this.

/Paul