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[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] toppits:
Hi :)

I want to flash CM11 (later CM12) on a GT-I9195 and I want to make sure I understood everything before I wreck the phone :)

I got a S2G (I9100G) myself and am quite familiar with flashing with Odin and CWM.

what's on the phone right now?

Right now there's Samsung Stock 4.4.2 I9195XXUCNJ6 on the phone. No root no cwm, everything is Stock. OP says I should root and flash CWM like it's explained here. Nothing is mentioned about which Android Version or which builds are supported, so I suppose it doesn't matter what build/version I am on? Will it work with the Samsung Stock 4.4.2 I9195XXUCNJ6 or do I need to flash another Stock ROM?

root?

Then I have a little question about root, just out of curiosity: Why do I need to root before I can flash a custom ROM? On the S2G, coming from Stock Android I just flash a Custom Recovery without Root or anything, reboot to the Custom Recovery and I can flash any Custom ROM.

cm11? nightly vs m-release, upgrade to cm12 without wipe?

As the owner of the S4 has no idea how to flash and doesn't want to learn it and I don't want to support him all the time I thought I'd flash M12 (or the newest nightly?) for now and as soon as there are M-Releases for CM12 I'd upgrade. I read that you can upgrade from CM11 to CM12 without wiping, is that rigt? Does that work from the Nightlys as well or just from M12-Release? As I read on the last pages the newest nightly is stable enough as a daily driver, right?

So my plan is the following (please tell me if that'll work):

I follow the guides - flashing CWM with Odin, rooting with the .zip, flash CM11 (M12 or nightly??), gapps. Later when CM12 has M-Releases I upgrade without wiping, flashing the ROM + gapps and that's it.

Sorry for writing so much :D just want to be 100% sure before i start flashing, especially when it's not my phone ..

edit:

After I flashed the CWM and rooted, I could start the phone and backup my userapps + data with titanium backup and flash cm afterwards, then restore them right?
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] sasank360:
You need custom recovery to flash roms.

No need to root stock rom when you have custom recovery and want to flash custom roms. It does not matter what baseband/modem/firmware version you use. Make sure you have latest recovery and latest supersu zip.

Coming to cm11. Usually M-releases or snapshot builds are more stable than nightlies. But the last cm11 nightly is good. Can be used as daily driver.

Yes you can backup apps with tb and restore them on any rom.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] ginepro85:
Hi to everybody

I've cm11 snapshot 12 installed but missed calls notifies don't work:eek:.

Can someone help me, please?
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] Defy_Duke:
[MENTION=6212097]XXchrisXX[/MENTION]

Hello,

you're absolutely right. :good:

Nice that you yourself have taken on the matter again and a new nightly've compiled.

I have just installed and it seems to work very well.

I hope you go on and we get newer versions of CM11 from you.

Thanks again for your work.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] DeusEx80:
I hope that a final version of CM11 will be released.

For 100% awake bug (CM11 - Google Play Services incompatibility), i have found this working solution: http://forum.cyanogenmod.org/topic/106425-100-awake/
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] XXchrisXX:
New Nightly build cm-11-20150407-XXCHRISXX-serrano3gxx is up!

Hello,

I have uploaded a new Nightly build at my androidfilehost account "xxchrisxx", within the folder "S4 Mini".

Search for the file: "cm-11-20150407-XXCHRISXX-serrano3gxx.zip".

This time, it is a build only for the S4 Mini (3G Version/serrano3gxx).

So also the I9190 people, can be happy about a new CM11 Nightly build.

Also they can use the same gapps, from the gapps folder, because of same DPI.

In addition to that, I build again the latest version of philz touch recovery (6.59.0) for this device, which you can download there also.

There were no real changes between my last serranoltexx build and this in the CM11 repos, so a new build for the LTE version would be not of much use, in my opinion. But if there are some changes more, I will built an update for both devices. In the meanwhile, I have build other CM11 builds for devices, CM doesn't care about anymore (S4/I9500 and S3 LTE+/ks01lte), which you can download also from my androidfilehost account. In some magical way, on the exact same day, the I9500 Nightlys were rolling out again (After 5 months). In fact, it was a other sort of situation: There were no CM12 builds, which replaced the CM11 Nightlys, like for the S4 mini. In fact, the CM11 Nightlys stopped without any reasons and nobody at CM cared about it - until yesterday.

In fact, if you want a relatively stable custom ROM, CM11 is actually the way to go, because of arco68's good work to backport device specific changes to the CM11 branch. Hope the S4 3G people are happy about the new build. I could not test it, because the lack of the device, but I am sure it will work flawless. Otherwise please report it. :highfive:

[MENTION=3881203]DeusEx80[/MENTION]

The bug you described, should be already fixed with my Nightly builds. There were two changes recently, in conjunction with the SystemUpdateService. But I am sure, your tip will help the people, who are still using the M12. But to be honest, in my opinion. the Nightlys are much more stable, in difference to the old M12 build, because nearly all changes are bugfixes today. Also an update to the final build (If CM cares about) should be possible, if you are always some Nightlys behind. Also the newest gapps should not include this bug. I don't know exactly, but read in some reports, that the bug disappeared with an update of them. :fingers-crossed:
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] DeusEx80:
[MENTION=6212097]XXchrisXX[/MENTION]

you are right, the 100% awake bug is NOT present in your nightly (i checked the 20150402 lte version, disabling privacy guard).

Instead it is present into CM11 M12 and into the last official nightly (20150105).

I think that this bug doesn't depend from gapps: i have installed the gapps-kk-20140606-signed.zip long time ago, and never update them.

When i installed your nightly i only wipe dalvik and cache.

Thanks for your nightlies, it works very good and i didn't found any bug yet.

For me CM12 isn't mature yet.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] Hyst:
Correct me if I am wrong, but GAPPS update automatically.

Hasn't the play store changed its design? That's because of it updated itself.

Edit: with GAPPS I mean Google play Services and not the individual apps, such as gmail and such.

And as the 100% awake bug is caused by the systemupdateservice which is part of the play services, it probably appeared cause of an automatic update.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] DeusEx80:
The bug is present with 20150105 nightly and Google play services 7.0.97 .

Now i checked that the version of google play services installed on my phone is 7.0.99 ... i didn't check with v.7.0.99 and 20150105 nightly, but reading on forums it seems that google play services v.7.0.99 didn't resolve the bug on custom roms affected.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] :
grouped dock icons shortcut issues on CM12.1 -20150512 Nightly

Hi folks bearing in mind this is a nightly build

Is there any way to get grouped shortcut icons to show up in their respective folders when clicked

I like to have my icons clustered into groups on the dock

so for instance I'd have viber , whatsapp & messaging shortcut icons all in the same dockfolder for rapid access .

However when I click a dock cluster and a little pop up window opens , that popup window appears empty but if you clicked within it you'll activate an app, problem is though you don't know what you're clicking till the associated app pops up.

Any ideas please ?

Thanks
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] vasiboss:
Hello,

Regarding S-view, after closing the cover the screen goes black,

When pressing the power button the s-view window appears.

Can the s-view be configured?

Thank you.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] Tom Mix:
REQUEST

is there a chance to get or make a KK build with the security-patch-level 2017-05-05 :confused:
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] shayne77:
A buggy cam app on a smartphone? I think that is a bit of a major issue... Considering 90% of us would use our camera on a daily basis. But you're right, we will have to wait...

Can you confirm;

- Record a video (Even tho it shows pixelated it records fine) for say up to 2mins? Is the aspect ratio OK? I found when I stopped recording for up to 2mins, the app would freeze and not save the video.

- Use the cam app and take a few photos. I've found sometimes the cam app crashes particularly if you don't touch to focus before taking the photo. Go in and out of the app, you'll find eventually the preview will turn all pixelated like video does.

And I've found I have to reinstall f4rs cam as even the photo preview turns pixelated... Only way to fix is to reinstall f4rs cam app.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] leripe:
Well what I have learned since (2010) I started using custom roms, that there are far more important things to fix than the fully working camera. Never understood why like you said that the camera should be one of top things to fix.

Tested both scenarios, everything is fine expect the video recording preview. And seems that issue with taking pics with flash has been fixed also. (though i have full wiped for the latest and i don't currently use custom kernels or the f4k camera fix etc.)
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] ViolentR:
Is it just me where on Hangouts (Front facing camera) is displaying upside down on Hangouts only.. it's fine on normal camera app. Noticed on NIGHTLY: 24.

Think it was fine before that. I'll update to the next nightly tomorrow and see what happens ;o
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] F4k:
Updated Camera app.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] shayne77:
That's your personal opinion, not facts. Tell me one phone today that DOESN'T have a camera? That fact alone tells me that every manufacturer thinks a camera is pretty important. To compare e-penises, I have been running custom ROMs just as long if not longer.

I will full wipe tonight.

I found another cam app to try as well.

Edit: JPEG/video quality included, save to ext sd, etc.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2505973
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] Mitko:
The camera doesn't seem to work while the phone has established a MTP connection with the computer. Or is this made by default in 4.4?
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] leripe:
Not really a personal opinion since the devs have said that there are more important things to fix than the camera. Maybe my English is hard understand but i meant that i wouldn't flash a rom without at least semi working camera since it's so important to me.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] leripe:
Huge thanks!

Edit: Wondering why that fix hasn't been merged when it has been available for so long.

---

Updated the first post issues/requests/notes/fixes etc.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] rolex2002:
in last nightly (27/12/2013) phone.apk application not working (FC) at start with ART. After choosing Dalvik and restart - not booting.

After wipe cache and wipe dalvik phone started ok (Dalvik). Changed to art, reboot, and all ok!
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] xuleca:
Does anyone have breaks on video on Skype?
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] oneofthekaramosowbrothers:
So far everything is working fine here with the nightly of 12/26. Got the updated camera app which saves to the external SD card (see the CM11 thread) and KitKat compatible ( I mean ART) apps.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] Zoombaba:
Does anyone know how to get wifi to work without having to turn it off and on each time? This also happens to me on CM10.2 Stable but not on stock.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] leripe:
Do you have these wifi problems with different routers? Does it work in the nightly before the cm11-20131210 nightly? (example in 9th or 8th nightly)
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] Finitore:
It is normal to have only 2 gb free, without i have many apps installed?
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] leripe:
Seems you have lost some space somewhere. Have you tried art at some point or something related to space usage? Personally would check with spacesniffer via pc or/and full wipe.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] Finitore:
I connected the device on the computer and i deleted all files on the internal memory and now i have 4.30 gb free lol :P

sorry for the stupid question
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] leripe:
Glad that it worked out, still interested about what caused it. :D
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] Zoombaba:
Unfortunately I dont have access to other routers at the moment. Where do you find older nighties? I couldn't find anything older than 20.

Thank you
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] RyQril:
Had that issue, though you can do it in recovery wipe/system, data, cache. And you'll have the freespace
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] leripe:
Ask from those who have experienced those problems if they have saved them, the posts are linked in the first post.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] tomicop:
Why my phone it's making the image blurred when i want to film??
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] leripe:
It's a known issue and listed in the first post ages ago and there's also a fix for it listed there.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] tomogo:
Same for me, I realized that with last nightly 2013-12-27... but I didn't try it before...
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] resys:
Does the S4 mini has a poor camera in general, or had CM 10.2 (or 4.3 for that matter) poor camera software? Because the S3 mini with stock touchwiz makes hell lot of better photos than my CM 10.2 S4 mini.

Will the camera remain poor with 11?
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] leripe:
Can also confirm this, updated first post about it.

Camera isn't the first things they fix, and nobody knows how good it will get. Personally I got no experience on touchwiz camera so can't compare. But I'd guess that CM camera is hacked so it's not so good as the touchwiz one which uses samsung sources.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] Finitore:
Missing features.

-Google caller ID

-Photosphere

-Cloud Print
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] sepia66:
+1

---------- Post added at 07:48 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:42 PM ----------

I use A Better Camera on this ROM with very favourable results including HDR and Video.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] leripe:
Can someone confirm if the video recording preview was fixed in the latest nightly, 29th one.

edit: updated 1st post.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] bongster:
Confirmed
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] thepunisherbs:
Yes...video preview is fixed...camera app crashed one time changing from rear camera to front...opening again it started with video from front camera and then worked normal also switching. Only the phone in the global looks to me a little bit slower than before...or maybe i just need to go to sleep... :eek:
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] Finitore:
Any guy have tested the videoplayer to reproduce any MP4 video?
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] leripe:
Haven't ever had issue with playing mp4 videos since the video recorder uses that format.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] Finitore:
wat kernel you use?
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] leripe:
Currently the default one.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] tomicop:
Video image is fixed but, face unlock doesn't work
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] sepia66:
ART instead of Dalvik

Can we test the use of ART instead of Dalvik? Am using the latest nightly CM-11-20131229?
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] shayne77:
Not recommended or authorised by the CM team?
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] sepia66:
Thanks mate. Will continue using Dalvik until CM recommends use of ART.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] dong2007:
Where can I find the Launcher3 Settings?

In settings --> Home

Can I only choose Launchers :/.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] THEMikeUK:
Using the nightly from the 21st of December, if I use earphones and play music. On disconnecting, I get no speaker volume.

I've just upgraded to the latest nightly to see if it still happens, but, i've not seen it reported.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] tomicop:
Face unlock doesnt work. [MENTION=4551463]leripe[/MENTION] , put it on the list.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] ViolentR:
Anyone getting a crash when trying to video call on hangouts (App crashes) or is it time for me to do a fresh install. :L?
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] THEMikeUK:
Zoom fx camera broken with latest nightly. Shows black camera image and crashes when I try and take a photo.

Default video camera working much better though.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] leripe:
Press menu button on the homescreen.

I can confirm this, I maybe reported earlier but forgot about it. Thanks.

Can you like learn to read the first post? It's already there and don't mention me for nothing. If someone else confirms it, I'll move it to verified and also I have mentioned that I'm on holidays until early next month so hold your ****ing horses.

This has been reported and is already in the fist post. But lets check few other things. Which gapps are you using? Are you using dalvik? Have you full wiped when you upgraded to CM11?
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] leripe:
Confirm or unable to reproduce these?

Unverified

Missing settings:

- Option to disable 'keyboard in use' notification.

- Option to disable the sound on volume adjust missing?

- Option to mute camera/video shutter/recording starting sound.

- LTE toggle doesn't work.

- National data roaming. (at least for some countries.)

Missing features:

- Google caller ID

- Photosphere

- Cloud Print

Launcher issues/missing features:

- Using more than 7 homescreens/rows/columns causes all the menu graphic difficult to read, icon descriptions overlap.

- When you set a wallpaper to homescreen, you can't pick the position for it, it's just set the wallpaper.

App issues:

- Hangouts: (Front facing camera) is displaying upside down.

WiFi / WiFi AP issues:

- Screen mirroring. (Unstable/blinking WiFi display with no audio with Samsung AllShare Cast Dongle)

Camera issues issues/missing features:

- The camera doesn't seem to work while the phone has established a MTP connection with the computer.

BT issues:

- BT reconnecting problems with car. You have to turn the BT on/off to get it working again.

Face unlock not working.

Sensors not working for some people.

Missing call answer when answering it with home button.

Quick settings panel not showing up as organized in the settings.

Wake locks / Battery drainage related to google play services/google search? Fix, more info.

So there are quite a few unconfirmed or just unique problems to some users, it would be nice to get reports which of these are common problems and which are user specific. Some of these issues have been unverified since the first nightly or so.

But please do not confirm your own reported issues of course. Also do not quote the whole post, just the issues you are confirming or saying that you can't reproduce.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] ViolentR:
gApps: gapps-full-4.4.2-20131212-signed-Kaydin-NoGDialer-PhotoSpherePartial

I guess I should use the one recommended on the original post now I suppose as i used the above to use ART for a while in previous nightlies.

Yep using Dalvik atm havnt tried changing to ART yet on this nightly.

I started off with the first nightlies with full wipes and upgraded as new came out but I've wiped a few times during the new nightlies.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] leripe:
Okays, it has been reported that ART in general or older/specific gapps causes problems in the hangouts app. Can you report back after trying with those latest gapps?
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] ViolentR:
Sure but just a quick question, Can I flash the latest nightly AGAIN, wipe cache and dalvik and then flash the latest gapps? I really don't want to full wipe at the moment.

Or would I just wipe cache/dalvik and flash the latest gapps?
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] RyQril:
i upgrade to latest nightly using wipe cache and dalvik > install latest nightly via recovery, but "correct me if im wrong" installing latest gapps i think you are required to full wipe, cause upgrading to next nightly keeps the gapps and load "Android is upgrading..." on boot.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] Finitore:
On the nightly 12 the video player working fine..... why?

sorry for spam this insue
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] kieranswhite:
Kieranswhite

Hope this helps :0
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] leripe:
So it hasn't worked in nightlies after that for you? Have you done a full wipe and flashed the latest nightly and the latest gapps linked in the 1st post? Are you using dalvik? Which kind of videos don't play? Videos from PC? Videos recorded with the phone? Formats?
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] leripe:
Helped alot, thanks.

- Option to disable the sound on volume adjust missing? <- This means that when you adjust the sound volume with volume buttons there's this annoying adjusting sound. And there was, i remember right, a option to disable that sound in previous cm.

- Option to mute camera/video shutter/recording starting sound. <- Yes of course you can mute these sounds by muting all sounds, but there was also an option to only mute these sounds while having all sounds on.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] Finitore:
videos from my sd card (video clip AMV fim and etc etc) recorded videos working on the last nigtly and i use MP4 formats

i have latest gapps installed and the full modular google gapps With ART support.

I use default Dalvik runtime

Now i try aggain to install this nightly with a full wipe
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] sepia66:
Other installed cameras not working

Has anyone tested whether other installed cameras work on latest nightly? Mine are not working. The apps launch but nothing comes in through the lens! Stock camera works ok.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] leripe:
Try moving those videos to internal sd and see if it works then. Try the gapps in the first post.

Someone else reported camera fx zoom or something also not working in the latest, I'll update the 1st post.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] Finitore:
Fixed, is a Gallery2 app problem i fixed with a the gallery2 from the nightly 12 :) i am happy now
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] THEMikeUK:
Yeah, I exported camera zoom fx having the same issues.

---------- Post added at 04:58 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:51 PM ----------

I did search but can't find anything conclusive, but, should it be possible to move/install apps to the external sd card?
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] kieranswhite:
my snapchat does the same
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] itzzent:
QR Scan no longer works after flashing cm-11-20131229-NIGHTLY-serranoltexx.zip

testet with QR Droid & Airdoid2

With cm-11-20131226-NIGHTLY-serranoltexx.zip no Problems with QR Scans...
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] THEMikeUK:
I can't find this option anywhere so I can confirm that.

And that.

In the UK on 3, when at certain locations they piggy back other carriers. When my phone jumps to Orange, it thinks I'm roaming and turns mobile data off.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] :
Hi how can I install apps on external SD card ?

And recently when Im playing games are lagging or looks like screen doesnt responce properly ;/
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] tomas1352:
Snapchat camera and Face Unlock are not working in the 29th and 30th nightlies. Stock camera working fine.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] sepia66:
Camera apps not working

I can confirm again that with the 30th nightly other camera apps other than the stock camera do not work.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] ro11er:
True only stock camera workinf sinve the 29th build
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] sadonlyone:
beautiful, works wonderful. can you bring soft keys vibration steps and camera led flash light when phone's ringing ?
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] leripe:
"To install games/apps to external SD, you currently need some app/mod like FolderMount." Reads in the 1st post, not 100% about this, but this is what I have gathered. So if it's true then can someone confirm :)

Also updated 1st post about the confirmed issues, camera issue and few requests. Thanks to all who reported stuff!

Edit: And as sidenote if someone wonders why the non-stock camera app issue isn't on the verified list, it's because it's not really a rom rom issue :P
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] dong2007:
You can only change Rows & Columns and tick the Searchbar :/