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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] unique2me:
Issues Flashing Rom

Hello,

After flashing this ROM, I am am stuck on the black screen SAMSUNG logo, for 10+ minutes.

As far as I can tell, I have followed the instructions:

1. Flashed MK2 via Odin (no issues there)

2. Upgraded Philz Recovery to 6.08.9 - Note: I could not flash the zip in the OP because of error 7

the package is for jfltespr devices, your device is jfltecan

I found a zip file for philz touch 6.08.09 that was for jfltecan devices, flashed that, and everything went smooth. Checked About in Philz Settings and version numbers reflect appropriately.

3. Wiped 3 times using Philz Clean Install wipe methed.

4. Rebooted to Recovery and applied stockish05.zip file

5. Stuck on Boot Screen.

I'm guessing that the issues lies within my device being jfltecan instead of jfltespr, but this is all gibberish to me...

I'm coming from the latest build of SACS 4.3 ROM which has been super buggy and unstable, so the simplicity of this ROM is appealing. Stability and battery life are of utmost importance.

I appreciate any insight.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] leaderbuilder:
If you device is jfltecan, then it's a Canadian variant. (Virgin maybe? I don't know).

You are in the Sprint forum.

Try over here
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] leaderbuilder:
Well then something is wrong

If your phone says jfltecan it's jacked up - go back to best buy and have them replace it.

Get a Sprint phone. I'd call them on this. Unless

you

somewhere flashed jfltecan firmware - like a full .tar. If you did that then you own that problem. You might want to full Odin the stock MK2 .tar to get you back to stock everything. Re-root via CF-Auto Root or Saferoot. Then install your Philz and go from there.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] loc125:
so i installed the new rom v5, and the transparent notification drawer does not seem to work with this version. any fix available?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] rawintellect:
Below is copied right from the OP:

Installing the transparent notification drawer settings in Wanam Xposed

1. Unzip and copy this file transparent notification drawer.zip to the /sdcard/.WanamXposed folder.

(note the period before the foldername)

2. Open Wanam Xposed.

3. Open menu.

4. Select restore a backup

5. Select transparent notification drawer.

6. Reboot to apply changes.

Note what I highlighted in red. Make sure you copy it to the correct folder. Wanam has changed it from /sdcard/WanamXposed to /sdcard/.WanamXposed.

This works fine. User error. Screenshots attached.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] dante32278:
Awesome! Love this ROM, I was using a few others and kept debating going back to stock with root. THIS is exactly what I had in mind, stock experience so everything runs smooth plus a tweak here or there to improve battery life and allow personal customization. Keep up the great work!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] Kafluke:
anybody else having problems with wifi? It keeps dropping my wifi and I have to reboot it to connect.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] Ramon77:
What if want the stock File Explorer? Is there a way I can keep it on there or a way I can put it back?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] Jim M:
I have dirty flashed the stock (ish) over the original update from this thread. No problems to report, everything working, wifi stays connected.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] randymanlb:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=48495012&postcount=78
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] rawintellect:
You need to flash the MK2 modem. The link is in the OP.

Sent from the rabbit hole.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] dante32278:
You can also use mobile odin to do this. Well worth it if you have an iffy pc connection.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] rawintellect:
I can make a flashable zip of all the files I removed. I'll make them user apps. Then when you flash it if there's anything in it you don't want? You can uninstall them.

I'll make a flashable zip for Myfiles explorer just for you! :)

Here we go! MyFiles_Explorer.zip
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] fgr:
Nice work [MENTION=1274198]rawintellect[/MENTION] !!!

You've got this setup almost

exactly

as I set up my own. Just a few changes for my personal preferences, and I'm ready to flash!!!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] Jim M:
I am happy to report that everything I've tested so far has worked correctly, no FC's, I tested 4G LTE this morning and it is working as well.

Thank you again.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] runwithme:
I can flash recoveries, modems, and anything I want. I can run cyanogenmod. But when I flashed MJA, and just now this stock rom, I get an "Encryption failed" error. Any advice?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] rawintellect:
Are you using philz recovery to flash this? I state this in the OP.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] runwithme:
Yes I am using philz recovery. Although I also tried TWRP to wipe all encryption from the data partition because it has this feature and I think something is wrong with my data partition (when I ran Aroma file manager it showed the data partition with a lock on it). What doesn't make sense though is how cyanogenmod is installing and running perfectly fine.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] rawintellect:
Are you getting any errors when you try to format the /data partition? Your /data partition definitely seems hosed or encrypted. If you can't format it with a custom recovery try flashing the stock recovery and wiping data with that. If that doesn't work it's a trip to the sprint store for you. If you can install CM maybe bring this up in the thread you got the CM ROM? Maybe they've seen this before?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] runwithme:
I'm getting an error as follows "E: format_volume: make_ext4fs failed on /dev/block/mmcblk0p27"

Could trying to format this via adb work?

---------- Post added at 04:02 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:36 PM ----------

Alright I figured since I might have to install the ROM via odin with bootloader, I could try some silly things first (lol) so I flashed cyanogenmod and I encrypted my phone through cyanogenmod. I then wiped and re-installed your rom. Now, after the boot animation I receive a screen that says "Enter your PIN or password to use the encrypted device memory" however my PIN I used to encrypt the phone is not working.. ugh
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] Ramon77:
Thanks!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] frafael:
Should I flash the modem firmware (MK2) before or after I have flash the ROM Stock(ish), or doesn't matter at all?

I am on:

MF9 Boot loader

MJA ROM Stck + KT Kernel

Philz Recovery
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] rawintellect:
it doesn't matter. :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] youngpro83:
Download keeps failing. Any mirrors?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] rawintellect:
Androidfilehost has mirrors on the download page.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] perezmarka:
Wipe Dalvik and Cache and Format?

I've seen it said before to COMPLETELY wipe the phone. On top of wiping the Cache and wiping the Davlik at least twice, I've heard it said to format too. In Philz go to Mounts and Storage menu and format system, cache, preload and data. Format twice. Then reboot into recovery and then install the Rom. The other thing I have noticed, after a fresh install like this is that the first boot takes longer. After the install, I reboot the phone and it takes about a minute and a half before I get to the home screen. As far as battery life goes, this rom is great! :laugh: On stock, I got maybe 9 hours with an hour of screen time. Now I am at hitting 20-26 hours with 5 hours screen time! Woohoo!!! I would also add that if you do the formats, you will wipe all data. Your SD card will be completely wiped so make sure you back up all your data.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] rawintellect:
You're right! I have been putting out a lot of updates. However this next one is quite involved so it's going to take some time. I've moved to an aroma installer and I'm currently adding a lot of features to it. Both new and old. This is quite involved. I'm working as fast as I can.

However v05 is very stable Please give it a try.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] AlkaliV2:
I've got a an interesting experiment I'd like anyone available to run if you have the time so I can see if this is just my device acting this way. I installed Stock(ish) v05 yesterday and it is exceptionally smooth and responsive. I am very glad I tried it first on my new S4. So back to the test. I was trying to find a stable overclock for my phone using the KTweaker program and Stability Test located HERE. The reason I'm doing this is because I bought the phone used and I have a 14 day window to make sure it is functioning properly. I am using the KT-SGS4 that was built in (1-13-14 I believe) so I should be running the same as most users here on v05. So here are the steps I took.

KTweaker:

1.) CPU governor to Performance

2.) Enabled Overclock steps

3.) Set high end to 1998Mhz

Stability Test:

1.) Classic Stability Test run for 10 minutes

What I found is that while my clock speeds started out at the max speed, it quickly dropped down to lower than 1998Mhz after a few seconds. After some research I read that Stability Test may not be able to fully work all cores like it claims to. However, I would like to know if anyone else is able to see consistent overclock speeds on their device? It would just help me ensure the hardware in my new device is solid. Thank you all for your time on this.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] rawintellect:
Actually KTweaker has a function in it called "Thermal throttling". What this does is scale the CPU back the hotter it gets. It's completely adjustable via the KTweaker app. For more information on this please review KToonsez's thread.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] AceKing721:
Thank you for taking the time to answer me. I downloaded it, and will definitely try it.

Again, thank you for what I consider to be the best ROM out!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] AlkaliV2:
When you said that I hadn't considered that as a problem. However when I went in to check it, it reported that throttling was disabled and I was unable to get it to enable at all so instead I just adjusted the values. I put the high end temp to 85 and I set it to only throttle down 1 step at a time. When I went back to run it again it started out at 1.99 and throttled back to 1.45 which is far more than one step. Not only that, the temperature of the chip at idle on my device is between 36C and 40C and 51C after running the test for five minutes. I know from your previous posts that you run a version ahead of us, but can you verify this happens on your device as well? I'm even willing to update my kernel if it will show a difference, but because it is such a huge change for the system that requires time to settle in I avoid it until necessary.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] rawintellect:
Your questions would be better served asking them in KToonsez's thread sir. I'm not the developer of this Kernel.

Thank you.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] rawintellect:
One of the choices I've just finished adding to AROMA: TW Launcher size.

You can choose from several launcher sizes I've created to make better use of our huge screens.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] lcovel:
I'm looking forward to giving that a gander. I need all the help I can get, even with our large screens.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] xchampx13:
Haven't really been keeping up with the thread lately, newest version is running just great. Cannot wait to see what you have in store with aroma.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] dinaps86:
I love u
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] mikeprius:
Since the newer version will have the AROMA feature, can the v 6.0 be flashed dirty via your method once it is available to keep current apps ?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] WW3:
how do i disable the adblocking? it seems i can't visit some sites i frequently visit. I have tried updating the master file manually and deleting all hosts only leaving a blank master file, but i still cant access them. I then deleted the master file and placed a blank text file renamed master there, but still nothing. Following the instructions in op's third post on how to update the master file didnt help either using ad-block,.

any help would be appreciated.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] lcovel:
Okay, I know there was a way to disable the home key from waking my device, but for the life of me I cant find it. Can someone PLEASE enlighten me?

Never mind, got it sorted.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] JhoonB51:
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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] rawintellect:
I'm actually having issues with that very thing. On a clean install everything works fine. But when I reflash it using AROMA without wiping I lose wifi. I have no idea why this is happening and it has me stumped.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] rrbailey89:
This happened to me too when I was using dolphin browser. To fix it I just updated dolphin browser and jet pack. To do this just search for these apps in the play store.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] rrbailey89:
I'm having a weird issue with my wifi hot spot and I'm unsure how to trouble shoot. Other devices are able to connect but they don't seem to be getting any Internet access. I know hotspot works with this room as I've used it before. But at the same time I also know that I'm not using an out of the ordinary apps that would prevent hotspot from working properly.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] Danster840:
Sometimes I've seen wifi Hotspot info get corrupted on other phones of mine forcing me to change the ssid name and password and it works then. Not sure if it applies to you but the symptoms were the same with me

Edit: forgot to add that a second thing I did that fixed same symptoms when the ssid suggestion doesn't work is to go to your phone and force ip addresses instead of DHCP from phone. That is also a fix for similar symptoms. Then if you switch back to DHCP it should freely work again
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] rrbailey89:
I tried changing the ssid multiple times. The password. Even tried no password. All times the the phone can connect to the hot spot on my phone but can't access the Internet.

I can't find any settings in the hotspot configuration to force an ip address.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] Danster840:
I'm sorry I meant the device connecting to the phone, Take it off DHCP and just give it an ip. If your host phone is, 192.168.1.1 then just change the last number from 1 to something else, 2 up to 255 on the connecting device.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] rrbailey89:
Thanks for clarification. I just tried that to no avail. Isn't the mod done in build.prop? What should I see in build.prop to try and confirm its not messed up there?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] Danster840:
That part is out of my league sorry
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] fgr:
It's actually done in the services.jar in the system/framework folder. You have to decompile it to see anything useful/make any changes.

EDIT: Also note that if the services.jar file was messed up, you'd have a whole lot of other problems besides the wifi hotspot...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] rrbailey89:
Okay thanks for letting me know. Just for giggles I restored back to a fresh install (I didn't perform a fresh install) and still the same issue. The device is able to connect to my phone via the hot spot but is not able to access the Internet. So I had the device connect to someone else's phone hot spot and there's works just fine. I have narrowed it down to an issue on my side. But I have no idea how to proceed now aside from attempting a completely fresh install. Any ideas?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] rawintellect:
Woohhooooo!!!! I fixed the issue with WIFi going away on dirty flashes. That only took 4 days ha ha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Game on!!!!!!!!!! Well...after I sleep. :D
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] Ali1353:
philz_touch_6.13.1-jfltespr

Guys,

There is an update for Philz recovery:

philz_touch_6.13.1-jfltespr.zip

http://goo.im/devs/philz_touch/CWM_Advanced_Edition/jfltespr/philz_touch_6.13.1-jfltespr.zip
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] Parkourkid93:
Hey guys, Rom is running flawless so far, I'm having a lil problem with zram but that's not my question for now, but is anyone having problems with SHealth?, mine keeps force closing

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] rawintellect:
I know. :) I've been working on making this ROM compatible with it for the past week. ;)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] rawintellect:
I use it every day on v05. :) I can answer that easily. It works great! No FC.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] leaderbuilder:
And this is now here too.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] Parkourkid93:
Then it's deff a user issue, if I can get a log, can you check it out for me and lemme know what's wrong so I can fix it myself?, because logs are gibberish to me O.o

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] rawintellect:
I'm assuming you cleared data in app manager? Logs are welcome but at the moment I'm honestly swamped with getting v06 out so it might be a LONG time before I get back to you on that.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] Parkourkid93:
Correct & very understandable, managing a Rom Is hard work, I have no idea how you devs keep up great work like this, deff earned my respect, but besides that, what I will do is pull both the SHealth & SHealth Sensor.apks, copy them to my extSD, uninstall them from my phone, then reinstall, if not, I don't mine doing another clean flash :)

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] Ali1353:
Great , thanks raw :good:

I've tried 4 or 5 different ROMS , yours is the fastest , great job man.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] Parkourkid93:
Update: so I tried what I said I would & what I noticed is that most of the time the Sensor Force closes first, then I randomly get a 'system not responding' error, then SHealth itself force closes, so somewhere in between I feel like something isn't playing nice with the Sensor in particular, so I'm going to reflash, again, thank for your hard work on this rom, can't wait for V6 :)

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] Ali1353:
Is anyone able to use the Wi-Fi Direct feature? Mine doesn't work.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] Parkourkid93:
Update #2: so I reflashed & SHealth is working great so far ;)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] rrbailey89:
Update:

So I performed a fresh install and now my wifi tether is working again. I have no idea how it became corruped in the first place but im just glad its all fixed now.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] KStyles69:
About to try this rom but first can anybody confirm if it has any ad blocking built in?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] Danster840:
Yes. And original post also has update host file instructions saving you from having to search for that...

Edit: I also recommend you listen to this enthusiastic gentleman's instructions on wiping as its the only way I can get a clean install of any rom to fly whistling Dixie. Philz clean wipe for new rom option doesn't always float my boat and I gotta do it like the post including rebooting back into recovery. You can follow the op method first. But if you feel you followed every step to the t and your install got all kinds of farts, try to do a fresh install with this method of wiping before feeling down and out.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=50184564
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] rawintellect:
I've actually added to AROMA three ways to wipe for an install

1. clean flash for fresh installs (the installer will wipe /system /cache /dalvik/ and /data twice)

2. dirty flash. (usually used for upgrading from one release to another) this will wipe the /system /cache /dalvik partitions only it will NOT wipe /data

3 /dalvik and /cache only (not recommended)

I made it so you HAVE to chose one of these ways to wipe. I did this because so many people are "dirty flashing" /system....which is NOT what a dirty flash is at all. This is responsible for more issues in this thread than I care to count. It's now been eliminated if you chose option 2.

If I get people just doing option 3 and claiming they did option 2 I may just remove option 3 entirely.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] btoddweber:
Sorry if dumb question but does V5 take away the ability to get the ota's for updates? Or will it still recognize it whenever its avail?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] rawintellect:
I'm assuming you mean KTweaker? No it does not. KTweaker will work as normal.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] btoddweber:
No like to 4.4.2 from 4.3 even though it would be stock
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] rawintellect:
Any custom ROM prevents this. This ROM isn't stock. It's close. Hence the name :)

EDIT:

Well to be honest it isn't even close at this point. Especially with what I have in store for v06. It just LOOKS stock ;)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] btoddweber:
That's awesome....thanks for all you do
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] robogoflow:
V06? I been on v01 for a while now. Probably the longest custom ROM I have been running.(Very few flaws,if any) I hope (and I think I speak for some) that v06 will be the new KitKat update deknox because I do not want to run stock but new updates always make me do crazy things to my device.

Side note. I been reading this thread and a lot of negativity gets posted. This is not meant to be one of those post and lastly this is a great ROM, excellent support from the Developer, and hopefully this will continue to be my daily. Thanks for the work.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] Nick123194:
v06 = 4.4.2? :D:D:D:D
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] btoddweber:
Lol
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] rawintellect:
Lets not start that rumor. lol! I don't even see a 4.4 base out there yet. just the kernel.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] leaderbuilder:
Well this is out there. I'm sure the full will follow soon.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] rawintellect:
I know I saw that. it's usually a month until you see a ROM base after the source. And even if it does drop sooner I won't be developing on it anytime soon.

I need a break. I've literally had to start from scratch to build v06. I HATE building AROMA installers. Sure, it cuts down on user error but I really don't think it's worth it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] leaderbuilder:
Your work is greatly appreciated bro. Anything and on your time.

I always wondered about the AROMA thing. Seems to be such a hassle. Ya, I know you can limit some stuff. But then again because it is designed for options it would seem to me to open up way more chances/options for so many different configs, it would be a bear to support.

Take ANY and as much time to do what ever you want, we're just luck you've shared it with us.

Thanks again.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] frafael:
hey rawintellect I just love your stock(ish). I am anxious to see your 4.4 Stock(ish)v01! :laugh:

No pressure!