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[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] kalapyu:
Hi everyone,

I own a HTC one that I converted to a full HTC GPE (meaning i am not an expert with the S4).

I promoted the GPE experience so much, that a friend asked me to install "the same experience" on her Galaxy S4. So i installed the AOSP Official 4.1 - S4 Google Edition ROM. My friend keeps getting notification to update the phone to 4.4.4. Which she cannot do as this ROM does not allow update from the phone menu directly.

So i need to take care of the phone myself. BUT, i am considering installing CM on her phone so she can update herself when new versions are available.

If i were to do so, what should i do? I don't have the phone handy so I can't check which recovery I installed...

Basically, I should :

- go into recovery assuming her recovery is compatible - which one are?

- wipe cache only ? because if i wipe data and cache she will loose her content (music, pics, apps...) ?

- flash the zip and install gapps ?

What about the installer from http://www.cyanogenmod.org ? would that take care of everything? In this process, i just don't get what the Windows installer perform?

Thanks for your help!!!

Kala
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] zeus85:
Google play edition is not CyanogenMod respect forum rules and find the right post or great your own if your question is to do with CyanogenMod I recommend installing cm11 m8 snapshot on your friends s4 its a very stable monthly snapshot and it is running android 4.4.4

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[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] kalapyu:
Thanks. I appretiate the answer. I know this is the CM thread. I was refering to GPE to give the context. The phone has a GPE ROM and i am considering installing CM. My questions are on how to install CM after GPE. This switch freaks me out ;)

back to the topic: no special advise on how to install CM in this particular situation? Would wipe cache only be enough? Or Cache and data?

Thanks!
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] zeus85:
Myself I always download ROM and recommended gapps then go into recovery format boot , system , cache , data , install ROM install gapps that always keeps the install clean and bug free for me

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[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] 189cutter:
Yh when i try it even mtp it dont connect but on mu laptop it does sometimes weird
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] RowanDDR:
No FC here, as yet.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] stanley08:
I don't think I used this one

I will flash latest Nightly today, lol. My battery life is so bad on stock that I'm considering a new battery. Lol. Thinking my battery is bad. Oh well! :)
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] george_russos:
Is this OK for daily use?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] tomurbanowicz:
Is any chance to add to CM lockscreen notifications in lockscreen like in PA/MAHDI/MoKee?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] sronweb:
Several people use CM without big issues. If you want to be safer I recommend to install the monthly milestone version instead of nightly.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] george_russos:
Thanks for the answer. How about the M8 Snapshot version?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] sronweb:
M8 snapshot is fine and I would install it for daily use without problems. On recent nightly I see some battery drain issue reported also from other users.

PS: for thanks please use the thanks button.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] george_russos:
Hehe last question, what's the deal with the camera drivers? Last time I used a CM ROM back in like March I think I couldn't use 3rd party apps.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] andreiav:
I've been using cm11 M8 for about 2 weeks with alucard kernel. Best battery I have ever had. Smooth and error free.

As for the camera, I use Snap Camera and it works perfectly. So no problem with 3rd party camera apps.

Cheers

Sent from my GT-I9505
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] NZgeek:
The most popular recoveries for the S4 are the official CWM recovery (touch and non-touch versions), PhilZ and TWRP. If your friend's phone has one of these, you should be fine.

If you want to install one, go with either PhilZ or TWRP. I found TWRP to be annoyingly slow to respond to input and would recommend PhilZ.

Because this is a major change in ROM, you'll need to wipe all data. The big problem is mainly with the data stored for the core OS, and leaving this data in place can cause all sorts of instability problems.

The best thing to do is to find a decent backup app and to backup all of the existing content before changing ROM. Good ones will let you backup key pieces of system data as XML, and will then restore the backup via API calls (rather than just dumping the backed up files in place).

I've used both Titanium Backup and MyBackup Pro and both work well. They're both also paid apps, and I'm not sure what good free alternatives exist.

Wipe /system and /data. Flash the CM package, then GApps. Reboot, setup phone, restore backed up apps and data.

The installer only provides a method for installing the ROM for people who don't know a thing about the process. The fact that you're asking about recoveries and what to wipe says that you'll probably be better to stick to the manual method.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] vbiste:
i cant import contact from sd 64gb

messege is noting file found for importing:confused::confused::confused:
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] zeus85:
I had same problem when I first flashed cm11 on my phone I ended up flashing stock using Odin then synced with Google reflashed cm11 then after setup auto sync takes a minute or two then that's job done all your contacts on your phone

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[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] stanley08:
What's happening? I have NO IDEA whatsoever. Lol
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] SnoopyDog:
I tried 24th nightly and the battery went down like hell. Now i an back on 16.07. nightly. It is still strange: when i am home, everything is ok. In the office, the battery also goes down more. Maybe, because the moblie signal is very bad there...
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] 135Shadowsoul:
Hi,

bad Mobile Network Signal or WiFi Signal (connect with bad signal) drains a lot of battery (i dont know why, i just know that it is)

if you dont need your device to call or get calls, just put flight-mode on while at work. If you have mobile internet aktivated, it also need energy even if there is no real connection.

If you do not want to do that manually everytime, just try app "Tasker" with plug-in "Secure Settings" or similar apps.

Perhaps try some days flight-mode the device while you are in the office and turn back after leaving. Battery should be a bit better. Same is for me in my University, some rooms there dont have Mobile Signal => hard battery drain. => flight-mode on => better battery life
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] stanley08:
Well, I was on flight mode and it drained 7 in 7 hrs, dats poor.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] nasksnake:
Hi,

I've a problem since I've switched from Samsung touchwiz to Cm11 but now i've a problem with bluetooth, when listening to music i've got osme parasites/interferences like 2-3 seconds stop music then continues..

Am I the only one to have this problem? I've tried different kernels such as alucard or ktoonsez...
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] Cozmos23:
There are apps which can switch to flightmode when there is an poor connection. F.e. leandata or Tasker.

But consider nightly = may contain bugs.

Music streaming via Bluetooth runs flawless for me even for hours.

I'm on the snapshot M8 and using Poweramp with stock Kernel.

When I get an notification the music stops for 2-3secs too with the notification sound. Dunno where the setting is.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] SnoopyDog:
One of the last commits has this comment:

But even 12 hours would be bad (?)

http://review.cyanogenmod.org/#/c/69111/
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] compunerd3:
This is working great for me.

I am in Ireland where its 4G instead of LTE and the DC signal icon should be H.

How can I change that to my localised version? I want it to show 4g and H instead of LTE and DC
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] feraay:
H and DC arent the same

Its like u say its not wifi its NFC.

If its h , its HSDPA (hsupa) and DC, duel carrier HSDPA ,means double Speed of h.

And 4g say 4th Generation of mobile data, the connection is called LTE all over the wolrd.

Read a lil bit before ok man.

And no u arent a nerd. A real nerd knows those things and if not he can find out itself^^
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] !crazy:
You people should understand that you run millions and millions lines of code on your devices. In your case 1%/hour is not grate, but not really bad either.

Some apps can have bugs 2hich are triggered in airplane mode. They could still try to make connections, causing wakelocks and cpu to run.

Best idle time ever I get with my i9305, with Omni, Boeffla, Art, and Greenify (without xposed clearly.), with mobile data and wireless off, airplane on. That drains less than 0.1 % / hour, and if I leave it on 6% today, I'll found it like that tomorrow.

I am about to try the same setup (except Omni will stay on CM.) with this device now. But, that is not so important to me, and this is my main device, so I have more services here running, and I don't leave it in airplane mode, almost never, because that causes alarm clock sometimes to oversleep.

Anyway what people here do (here that someone achieved 0.1%/h on other device and accept that as a norm.) is wrong.

To trace your issue you have to examine wakelocks carefully, and all apps, especially those with services, one by one. The best way is to start with core apps, without gapps too, except maybe play store, and then to add apps one by one.

Also one has to consider the environment, networks, signal, wireless configuration, really everything.

For most of people this is too much, but they also don't have much problems with accepting the battery consumption how it is. As long as you can get trough a day with a single charge, that should be satisfying enough. That's a smartphone, a quite complex device, with tons of software, with unique combinations from device to device (even the core hardware, like cpu/gpu. There is no single chip same as another. That's why big differences in OC capabilities etc.), so use it, and enjoy it.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] a103:
Well said. Totally Agree and understand.[emoji3]
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] compunerd3:
No need to be plain rude.

At the end of the day I am asking if I can change the icons to match my country.

Lte is not displayed for 4g here. 4G is displayed.

We have G,Edge, 3G, H, H+ and 4g. I want these displayed instead of DC and LTE.

Simple question no need for a smartass cocky reply.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] 9Lukas5:
The thing is, that it's not your country having a special/other naming. LTE = 4G and DC is better than H+.

That it showed you 4G instead of LTE is a thing of the firmware you used before, but that has nothing to do with your country^^

L
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] !crazy:
Forgot to mention important thing, but I did it before, lot of times, never judge battery life immediately after flashing new rom, or even kernel sometimes (depending on the differences.). Some apps/services require some initial work to be done at the beginning of usage, probably to initiate and fill database, local or in cloud, to generate some statistics and similar.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] v00d007:
Can't load attachments in stock mail app. It seems to load the jpg but afterwards there is nothing...

on 07162014
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] 135Shadowsoul:
DC = "2xH+" and LTE != 4G. LTE is called all over the world as 4G, but the normal LTE (and LTE advanced) is more 3,7 - 3,9G then realy 4G (4G = 4th Generation of mobile network)

Thinking about this, your Phone is right to show LTE and not 4G, so why showing "wrong" information?

DC is not H or H+, so it is shown as its own "connection icon".

G, E/Edge, 3G, H, H+, DC and LTE would be the best.

This should NOT be a trolling post or something like that.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] RowanDDR:
Something is wrong with "Cube Out" scroll mode for the drawer. Its been a little messed up for months now. In the first page swipe the cube effect is not pronounced enough, in the following swipes it seems too pronounced. Such a trivial issue lol but someone must care? I imagine the issue is not specific to this build so if anyone can recommend where I should post this instead..?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] s1l3nt:
is there a way to install the CM11 S (One plus one) lock screen? i remember seeing it somewhere or maybe it was in a different cm thread. I used search and nothing came up.

edit: nvm found it
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] mundixx:
Anyone having playback issues with Spotify? No sound is coming out eithet on headset or through speakers.. Using 7/26 nightly with alucard..
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] simonbigwave:
< why? jus asking.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] bernarbernuli:
flash 7/27 nightly and fix.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] kalapyu:
Hi,

thanks for you advises and tips. Did all that and it worked fine. Fresh an clean install on my friend's phone :)

We found two weird "issues":

- when selecting a ringtone: no sound is played/heard. Even though the volume is up and the phone is in "normal" mode. When playing a music from a mp3 player, I can hear the sound. When selecting a ring tone, nothing happens. I need to select the ringtone and then press volume to play it. Is this normal? or a bug? I don't have this on my HTC GPE

- at every reboot, the time and date changes... need to reset it manually...

Thanks again!

K
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] simonbigwave:
i dont and never have those issues with CM nighlies. u sure u did a clean install?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] kalapyu:
Thanks.

i think i did... I selected "Wipe data cache system preload" in Philz touch recovery... Which is what I was supposed to do, right?

If no one sees those bugs too, I will do another clean install...

Cheers,

K
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] !crazy:
WARNING

it seems that latest nightly hosted here

http://download.cyanogenmod.org/?device=jflte&type=nightly

Is corrupted. I usually download from that site, since one sees md5 checksum immediately, and I go to this site http://www.cmxlog.com/11/jflte/

To check changelog, and sometimes to download. File from the second link has a correct md5 checksum posted on the first link.

Also zip from the first link is around 30 MB smaller than usual. That are at least results I'm getting at the moment.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] soza971:
07/27 working good by my side wich build are you talking about?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] Jacopo97:
Guys i got a problem while flashing this rom. I have cwm philz touch and i got "can't open file(bad) installation aborted. How can i solve this problem? I'm sorry for my english
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] sronweb:
I suppose that you should download the rom again. It mighty be a partial download.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] Lither:
I'm new to using CM11 but need some help, I normally have my phone on vibrate for ringtone and notifications when I'm at work but when I'm at home, I always have ringtone and notifications sound, is there a profile which I can set without me having to change it everyday
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] 135Shadowsoul:
Hi,

if you want other settings at home and at work you have to switch them. But there are apps that can do this for you. I am using Tasker for example. With some plug-ins like "Secure Settings" (i think you will not need it for your problem) your device can do nearly everything alone. You just have to tell your device, when to do what. Example: location ~100m arround office/etc. it should turn off sound and only vibrate. With connected WiFi at home sounds on max.

Tasker is not for free, but if you realy use it, those (in €) 2,99€ are ok. i am not sure but i think there is also a trial-testversion. Perhaps just try, this and see if it hepls. For me Tasker helps me a lot, switching WiFi on/off depending on location, changes volume depending on connected WifFi, disables Lockscreen and disables displaytimeout wihle using apps for presentation and so on. Tasker can nearly do everything :)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.dinglisch.android.taskerm (sorry for german link)
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] SilentEYE:
,or you just try llama profile.I am using this app since many years. Another hint is to use a NFC tag. Just hold your phone on the NFC tag when you are at home .
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] NZgeek:
The issue with sound looks like it could be a bug in recent nightly builds. I use a slightly different ROM, still based on the CM code, and the developer said that he need to revert a change to get sound working again. Try downloading the latest nightly and see if it helps.

As for the clock issue, that's definitely not normal. You could try going into date and time settings and changing the Automatic date & time setting to the opposite of what it is now. That might fix the issue.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] Mittaa:
Have and old S2 with CM11 M8.

I don't use it so it's on flight mode all the time.

I charged it 7 days ago and until now it have only used 33% battery ... so CM11 core OS is not to blame :good:

UPDATE

12 days standby 50% battery left
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] sancho_panzer:
I'm also on M8, battery is amazing but even better with Alucard kernel. Never had big problems with M releases.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] stanley08:
Well, I get 10 to 11hrs screen time on my Z2. So I guess something might be wrong with my battery. Don't know. About same on all other ROMs. ;)
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] valenfrank:
Guys I have just flashed today's nightly and I am not able to change the screen density. I used texdroider and it didn't do anything, I then tried to modify the build.prop but it seems I can't, even though I have root and I gave privileges to both my file explorer (es file explorer and root browser).

Any help would be highly appreciated! Thanks!
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] !crazy:
Try opening display settings in system settings, I can not.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] valenfrank:
No problem entering display settings mate! I don't have any clue on what has happened though.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] !crazy:
Ok, maybe it is kernel relayed on my side, I'm on faux.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] valenfrank:
To be honest, I have always used stock cyano kernel and I was always able to change DPI. Today, I decided to flash Alucard and maybe that's the reason I cannot change dpi!

Thanks for the feedback Crazy!

EDIT

i havwbjust reflashed latest nightly with its stock kernel and I can now change DPI. Guess it was kernel related indeed!
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] soza971:
I'm using alucard kernel and i changed DPI densité it worked...

CM11
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] valenfrank:
Good for you :) I wasn't that lucky when I tried myself!
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] aleksik:
I don't think it's kernel related as I flashed the latest nightly with alucard kernel and changed dpi in build.prop. with no problem.

Sent from my GT-I9505 powered by SlimSaberKat & alucard kernel
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] ekaj98x:
as people are talking about alucard kernel I'd like to pop in a question, does anyone know if it will work with my i9507? CM11 works perfectly but people keep recommending that kernel, does anyone know if it'll be safe?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] :
does anybody experiences "0 pictures available" in gallery when opening? i get it in random situations. it kinda annoys me. lol. btw, it just display for 2 seconds but there are pictures.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] MetalPainis:
I'd recommend to ask that question here
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] ekaj98x:
I already did haha, no luck. I guess I'll just have to try for myself, thanks for the help anyway!
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] Lither:
Thanks, I'll give Tasker and Llama a try, so there is no feature built in CM that can do what I want?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] felek73:
A little bit of topic , at least for people outside Poland.

Is there anyone on this ROM and Plus network that is able to send/receive MMS ?

I set (for sure) proper APN's , switch off wifi , switch on data and I can't handle MMS at all. Have tried a lot SMS apps and still no joy.

Any feedback would be much appreciated..

I'm not sure if flashing stock firmware and then root again and flash CM would help ?

P.S. Sorry for my poor english
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] 135Shadowsoul:
Hi,

if you realy want to switch without doing anything you need those Apps. If it is no problem for you to manualy switch something, look into settings. There is a "Profiles" menu, where you can choose and modify profiels. Those you have to switch manually, but for example sound-settings can be managed.

I think there is no realy automatically feature in CM.

---------- Post added at 02:05 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:01 PM ----------

Back to stock and reflash i think will not help more then just re-flash CM after wiping data+chache(+dalvik) and perhaps format /system and /data that realy everything is clean

If you can send/reveice MMS i can not help you.I (German Telekom as provider) did never use MMS (just sms, and this works fine), only if my provider wants to annoy me we advertising but those were recheived.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] sancho_panzer:
I'm not in Poland and I never ever been able to send MMS on my network. Problem isn't ROM or SMS app, already tried different APN's configurations, Vodafone here sucks.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] a103:
Try profile switcher app, get it here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1856022

I've used it, it works as mentioned in the op.

Sent from my "Personalized Galaxy S4"
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] exynoss:
I am on m8 its almost a month old. Is their any major changes in nightlys after m8 ?? Which I am missing
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] mitky82:
How to switch on In Call Ui? I cant find settings for that :(
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] Cozmos23:
Nothing rly important. There was something about Color Options and even dunno if they implemented the offmode fix for the Samsung Bootloader yet.

www.cmxlog.com are the changes in the nightlys.

Also the M9 should be available soon.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] lucsbran:
Is there a reason why S4 has no nightly 0730 and 0731?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] andreiav:
0730 I don't know.

0731 will be out later today. in about 3-4 hours probably.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] lucsbran:
0730: thanks

0731: stupid question from me, but thanks
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] 9Lukas5:
Source related the m8 is two months behind the nightlies yet :D

I use it and am very happy with it. If the m9 is available I'll update to that

L
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Original Android Development] Cozmos23:
Dunno wäre u live but we have the 31. July and the M8 source was from 30. June which is one month :)