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[Galaxy S 4 General] opelcalibra:
Hi guys,

I thought I would also post here.

I have the optus 9507 and I tried a couple of different kitkat 4.4 roms. They all worked perfectly except for the fact that they lost data completely as soon as the phone went to sleep. the weird thing is, the phone showed 0 bars but i could take calls just fine, just had data issues.

i tried the slimkat rom and the echoe rom with the same issue

i went back to stock firmware, rooted, ran a debloat script i found on xda, removed a bunch more apps, then unrooted again because i need to run good for enterprise for work.

im getting decent battery life with the debloated stock rom but i would like to move to 4.4 if theres a rom that works. ive been watching the optus and sammobile site hoping there will be a newer modem for the hk version because i think optus will take their time releasing 4.3 for this model.
[Galaxy S 4 General] phileasx:
Thanks for your experience sharing,

I also started with Cyanogen and shared about the same experience.

Just didn't know the Knox thing before I started.. should had read up more before doing it.

So you did the Recovery with Heimdall also? What has made you switch to the customized Rom camp ;)
[Galaxy S 4 General] siganid:
Hey, no worries at all, anyone who works weekends can take all the time they need... ;)

Yea, I've done some reading also and you're right, it seems to be all conjecture, I really doubt handset warranty refusal can be based on the KNOX Warranty chip. I think the Samsung Enterprise Security Group VP explains it well here.

Great to hear, based on this I can ge ahead and 'burn out' my eFuse, happy in the knowledge that my Knox warranty has gone to a good cause. :fingers-crossed:

---------- Post added at 08:49 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:40 PM ----------

I can only assume your "enterprise for work" has nothing to do with KNOX, right? Coz that option would be closed for you now... :D
[Galaxy S 4 General] kaiserwatson:
That odd message not sending was the only issue I've had with this sort of thing; I can still download things, receive messages and calls just fine while my phone is sleeping, how do you know if the modem signal is cutting off? Perhaps it's just a selective thing, not sure. Don't know how to test if it's happening to me because it doesn't seem to be, lol.

Hey mate if you check the forum that I linked to the Knox issue; someone on there posted a fix for sound/WiFi issues post-Knox voiding, maybe that fix'll work for you. Sorry I can't link you to the exact post but it was about 10-20 pages in.

Yeah I reckon they'll take ages, they have pretty much left everyone who's getting this phone in the next couple of months in the dark because of the (as I can tell) severe lack of devs etc in Aus who have Samsung phones and are willing to hack them to the ****. I wish I could help out somehow, but I don't have the time to learn so I figured I'd help out by putting up my experiences. I'm still learning as I go haha.

As for your KitKat problem, I have read that 4.4 didn't do so well in terms of battery life and bloat, what are your reasons for wanting to go to it? I wanted the most recent build also but I figured that if they're still having issues with it then it was better to go with something I knew would work (ie. 4.3.1).

I followed the Windows process on the CM wiki to the letter, so yeah I did the Heimdall also.

Mate legitimately I went from my stock firmware taking up so much space on the hard drive to the real lightweight CM, seeing as I haven't bought a micro SD yet that was a big deal. Also battery life was a major reason for me buying the S4 so to be able to further improve it is just hella.

In Australia I think we're pretty good. Funny that Samsung and Optus have given us this nice present and it's only a matter of time before someone cracks it open and remains above the warranty voiding ;)

I have read that Knox may be software-based, which would make sense, and maybe it's a matter of time before someone cracks that too. Hehe.

Go ahead, post here if you have any issues and I'll see if I can help you out. What ROM would you be planning on using? A 4.3.x one?
[Galaxy S 4 General] phileasx:
Welcome to the rom flashing side :)

After read up more, I realize Odin is a more popular method for Galaxy S4 flashing,

Besides that, Stock rom battery life should also be all right. Samsung did quite some efforts to make the software user friendly. :D

Anyway, the Bloatware chunk are really irritating have to say.
[Galaxy S 4 General] opelcalibra:
because i cant keep still i have flashed my phone again lol.

i flashed the official CM 11 (4.4.2) and gapps for kitkat and all is working awesome so far.

no issues with losing signal when going to sleep. seems very fast. right now im happy with it.
[Galaxy S 4 General] richard_huang70:
Could someone please find new links for the original software posted in the OP?

Links are dead, would be greatly appreciated! =)

Also, Opelcalibra, you have no issues with network/signal on CM 4.4.2 with the Optus i9507?

I better give it a try then lol
[Galaxy S 4 General] scarytutor:
RE: Signal issues

Hi,

I also have the AU i9507 Opus S4, I flashed the Omega based 4.4.2 KitKat (i9505 version) and had wifi problems (Greyed out) I tried various fixes and went back to 4.3 based Omega, this had its problems with cell signal being lost when locking the mobile.

I fixed this by going into settings and experimented with mobile networks i.e. Settings, more networks, mobile networks, network mode and tried all 4x options with (for me at least) the GSM ONLY option selected, great rom and worth losing the 4g which is very patchy in my part of Melbourne.

D:)
[Galaxy S 4 General] thestuntman80:
Anyone else had any sort of success rooting this phone without tripping Knox.

Also, is it just me, or does it suck pretty hard that we Aussies get stuck with an inferior version of a phone? (Snapdragon 600 in the I9507 vs the 800 in the other international versions)
[Galaxy S 4 General] jameshef:
Update

Hi

Just wondering if anyone has an update on this? Success or otherwise...

One of the main reasons I'm looking to root is to boost volume levels - I find the volume to be way too low. Does anyone know of a way to do that without rooting? Of course I'd like to remove bloatware but could live with it if volume was fixed.

Thanks in advance.
[Galaxy S 4 General] kaiserwatson:
Hey bro, no one has cracked without tripping Knox yet because as far as I can tell it's a phone specific fix/hack. So, because our phone is a different and 'rare' model, I doubt that the major heads in the Knox-proofing scene (CF comes to mind) will have the time to make a fix for the knox trip. So for now, either suffer in your jocks (QQ) get a different phone (uh, not likely) or wait for the minute chance that someone actually cares about Aussies :P)

As for your second point, yeah, it does suck. We get shafted with all sorts of things like prices, release dates, localization...the list goes on. Unfortunately the people who make these ploys know we're desparate and will pay the exorbitant prices anyway :/

Hey mate, the rooting was probably the easiest part of the whole situation. You can follow my guide in the OP if you're having trouble. Just be aware about the warranty issues etc because your audio issue may be hardware related rather than software? Is the volume issue in the headphones or the speaker? Some apps may not utilise the phones full volume and also be sure to go into the settings of the phone and make sure the volume limiter is turned OFF. This **** me to tears for the longest time but once I figured out what the issue was, all good!

The only thing I'd say is just make sure its not a hardware issue because you don't want to root your phone, find out that it wasn't a software issue, take your phone into Samsung and have them tell you that your warranty is voided because you rooted. Obviously that's a worse case scenario but just be on the safe side.

I hope I helped you guys!
[Galaxy S 4 General] jameshef:
I'm fairly certain it's a software issue. I've done a fair bit of reading on it and the low volume is a very common complaint about the S4. My volute limiter is turned off - thanks for that tip though!

I'm going to try to root this weekend. I really hope that it works and I don't have any issues with reception dropping when the phone goes to sleep! Feels risky.
[Galaxy S 4 General] deanbilly:
I've changed my firmware from Optus to XSA, but am still on 4.2.2, how do I upgrade now?

Kies says I have the latest release.
[Galaxy S 4 General] Mussels84:
has anyone got links to newer modem files for this phone? been given one to update it to 4.4, but i know from experience that doing so without at least a 4.4 GSM modem, it wont behave right.

to the people without working wifi after updating: flash the Ktoonz kernel, he has a fix for that.
[Galaxy S 4 General] opelcalibra:
Hi All,

I recently updated to the new official 4.3 update from optus in order to update my baseband etc.

Then i immediately updated to the i9505 Goldeneye 4.4.2 rom. Ran a ebloat script to get rid of alot of the extras and its running very nicely.

Since updating the modem I get 4g at home which i never did before.

optus rom here

http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/3/?download=27109

flashed via odin (will lose root and custom recovery). re-root and install recovery after flashing this room.

goldeneye rom here

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2313469

obviously this will flag knox, mine was flagged long ao
[Galaxy S 4 General] nchc:
Thanx bro
[Galaxy S 4 General] Epic.:
Ok, I managed to get the firmware to download quickly by using some not exactly legal methods but never the less I have it now but need help.

This is the screen inside the .tar.md5 file from the firmware (https://i.gyazo.com/1d5a2459525c6cfaf1add2fce18b19ab.png). Which file is the bootloader file? I found the modem.bin one but which one is the bootloader file?
[Galaxy S 4 General] nchc:
Well done. I dont know which is the bootloader file and a quick google couldn't tell me either. Knowing that its simple is adding to frustration.
[Galaxy S 4 General] nchc:
Scrap that, thought i had a how to
[Galaxy S 4 General] Epic.:
I'm flashing the whole firmware right now through Odin and then gonna have to re root and then check the bootloader and modem have updated then I will flash Albe's S6 Port
[Galaxy S 4 General] Epic.:
I've done it. Everything is working fine, flashed Albe S6 Port 4.6 and the Data and Signal works perfectly.

Steps:

- Unfortunately as there is no separate bootloader file, you will have to download the whole firmware from the link above in this page

- Download the whole firmware, flash it through Odin

- This will replace your custom recovery with the stock one

- Boot into Stock Recovery, Factory Reset/Wipe Data then Wipe Cache as well

- Boot into Download mode, flash CF Auto Root via Odin (the one for i9505-jftlexx)

- Reboot, then boot back into Download Mode and flash TWRP via Odin

- Boot into TWRP, wipe data, wipe cache and wipe system then flash Albe S6 4.6

- Done
[Galaxy S 4 General] jaguaralani:
Root ?

How to root the new lollipop firmware ? same files (CF Autoroot + TWRP) as in Kitkat 4.4.2 ?

Cheers.
[Galaxy S 4 General] Epic.:
Yep, I used the same and it worked for me
[Galaxy S 4 General] yoshjosh1985:
Ooo does that mean they have released stock official firmware for i9507 - is that what you guys are discussing?
[Galaxy S 4 General] Epic.:
Yeah mate they released it yesterday
[Galaxy S 4 General] yoshjosh1985:
Thats great news. So far though I am now running Res Remix lollipop 5.5.9 latest version with Alucard kernel and it is amazing. Very fast, battery is awesome and now as it is AOSP I have full control over apps etc.

I have just got it working so well as well and since everything runs fine in the first place is there really any benefit to updating it?

Seems only point updating bootloaders if there are random reboots and/or roms not flashing or booting. Any reason to go through the painful process of re rooting re installing custom recovery and re flashing my rom?? :)?
[Galaxy S 4 General] jaguaralani:
call recording...

Thanks a lot mates for the news, any good call recording app/option working on the new 5.0.1 ?

cheers.

(I used to use xposed wanam previously on 4.4.2).

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And would anyone kindly post some screen shots from the new 5.0.1? ( dropdown toggles, icons...etc).
[Galaxy S 4 General] supergrass:
Another DL location

Another alternative to rapid gator is sammoble. You have to sign up to download, but I'm getting a steady 300 kb/s with Firefox/DownThemAll at the moment. 5.01 sammobile download
[Galaxy S 4 General] Aceracer27:
I see RR only officially support i9500 and i9505. Which version of RR 5.5.9 are you using?
[Galaxy S 4 General] yoshjosh1985:
With i9507 you can seemingly use any rom that is for the i9505 as it is the same phone except for small difference we have confirmed through this thread. You just need to keep the bootloader and modem for i9507. Plus I have found I really need a custom kernel installed like Alucard for it to run properly on this phone. For touchwiz roms don't need it I think but it worked better.

Now we have lollipop modem and bootloader for this phone which I have since installed I feel everything runs very well.
[Galaxy S 4 General] Aceracer27:
Thanks for the info. Very helpful. I'm doing this for a mate so want to be as well prepared as possible.
[Galaxy S 4 General] yoshjosh1985:
Well that is what this thread was about I only tried it because of the adventurous owner of the OP! Tried it and it worked so kept going with it because I like AOSP generally better than TW.

Risky doing it for a friend :) - I did that a few times then decided against it because if issues pop up later hard to fix it for them quickly. GL!
[Galaxy S 4 General] skitzmix2000:
Guys Try this Optimised Cyanogenmod 12 for i9507 works a treat

http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s4/i9505-orig-develop/exclusive-antaresone-alucard24-s-t3066696
[Galaxy S 4 General] supergrass:
Hey skitz I think this was the one I was using December last year. I couldn't get the screen rotation to work, which was annoying to say the least with Google Maps. Have you had this problem?
[Galaxy S 4 General] skitzmix2000:
Yes screen rotation works i have updated the modem using the new stock lollipop firmware for i9507 then flashed this rom and all is working fine the firmware can be found here http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/download/61347/I9507XXUHOJ1_I9507OPSHOJ1_OPS/

Mind you i did get this problem on the normal cm12 & 13
[Galaxy S 4 General] supergrass:
thanks for the quick reply

Thanks I might try this one. I tried another recently and it ate my battery. Still waiting for shiro to release a lollipop miui build. :good:

MIUI are still my favourite roms, but also battery hogs. Otherwise, I can also recommend Echoe Roms
[Galaxy S 4 General] skitzmix2000:
They also just released Optimized CyanogenMod 13.0 for the Samsung Galaxy S4 (Qualcomm variants) which is also working well so far no issues.

http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s4/i9505-orig-develop/jdcteam-optimized-cyanogenmod-13-0-t3334475
[Galaxy S 4 General] supergrass:
I installed and everything works Except when a call connects microphone and speaker are not working.

[update]

I followed post #68 on this page.

It's working for me so far. :)
[Galaxy S 4 General] supergrass:
ROMS

My Favourite ROMS (at the moment):

Echoe

MIUI Rainbow

JDC Team Optimised CM13
[Galaxy S 4 General] skitzmix2000:
Which 1 did you do cuz yes i have the same problem didnt notice it till you said something
[Galaxy S 4 General] supergrass:
not completely working... :(

Hi Skitz,

I followed all 7 steps in post #68, but unfortunately I am still having issues. Now I have noticed that incoming calls are fine, but outgoing, no sound :crying:.

Not sure whether going through the same steps after every reboot would fix it, but that would get old very fast....

I am a fan of Antares' work but I have found that its a bit ragged around the edges. At this stage I'm heading back to Echoe. I'll keep my eye out for another CM13 ROM or if they do iron out the bugs in this ROM. Sadly official CM support is still at version 11!
[Galaxy S 4 General] supergrass:
Update: trying resurrection remix lp version. So far, great!
[Galaxy S 4 General] doobinator:
Hi All, hoping someone out there can help me out.

Has anyone come across an issue where by it doesn't matter what ROM you use, you get random reboots. It can be while it's starting up or after it has started up during the initial setup. Sometimes it gets passed that and then after you have been using it for a random amount of time. It's really bugging me as I have a perfectly good S4 that I can no longer use. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Also since i have rooted and romed the phone it will only recognise Vodafone sim cards which is weird cause i got the phone from Optus. That might be a modem issue??

Any way any help that anyone can give would be greatly appreciated.

Thought I should add some screenshots so you can see what I have done. Odd thing is that the model says i9505 but baseband says i0507. Perhaps i have used an incorrect ROM??
[Galaxy S 4 General] RufflezAU:
Success with 6.1 Marshmellow on i9507

Just a quickie.

I used Kingroot to root the phone (yes run and hide)

Used old school odin to install:

cm-12.1-20161002-NIGHTLY-i9500-recovery.img

And my god it worked (quick factory rest to kill kingroot)

Then zip install from SD of:

cm-13.0-20161012-NIGHTLY-jfltexx.zip

Now change power settings to performance the phone hates the power saving (random resets)

Apart from that runs great, thought I'd drop my 2 cents in to help anyone else save 3 nights of head scratching XD GL and HF guys.
[Galaxy S 4 General] supergrass:
Hi, anyone who is still using this phone. I've switched to Side"s Lineage 14.1 port:

https://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s4/i9505-orig-develop/jdcteam-optimized-cyanogenmod-14-0-t3479888

And its working great!!
[Galaxy S 4 General] jandroidian:
Just successfully installed LineageOS 13 (6.0.1 -> Marshmallow), FWIW. Can't see yet why anyone wouldn't keep using this model. It's perfectly functional though admittedly I've not tested it with a SIM installed, yet. This is the first custom ROM I've installed and boy do I like the lack of bloatware :)
[Galaxy S 4 General] supergrass:
Will be interested to see how you go once you have the sim in. Our device is just different enough from I9505 to normally have a few things not work 100%. I went back to rooted stock lollipop with Magisk, for battery life, call reliability, adaptive brightness and screen rotation. Be sure to check all these things, as they are a major annoyance if this phone is your daily driver
[Galaxy S 4 General] jandroidian:
Yeah it will be interesting though I think I've switched now to a different ROM. Still Marshmallow based. I've seen somewhere amongst the myriad of threads and text in these forums that there may be a modem upgrade available. Possibly not though. I imagine that's where the key issues may be as another phone, a GS2, originally a Vodafone handset, now running on Optus via Virgin, accumulates huge logcat files. I don't know how to read them but a glance suggests errors with encryption of HSDPA connections. The logs get well into the megabytes!

So yeah that exposure gives me grounds for concern that non-standard / non-localised ROMs have trouble connecting to our towers / networks.
[Galaxy S 4 General] jandroidian:
Minor update. I inserted my SIM which is Virgin/Optus SIM and had no trouble making a call or communicating via SMS with one person who is using the aforementioned ex- Vodafone GS2 handset on the same Virgin/Optus network.

Both myself and the other handset were stationary so that may not have tested the system much but there you go, I guess. Just a minor update.

BTW, love your username ?

If there's any more specific and meaningful tests you'd like me to run I'd be willing to do so.

Speaking of Magisk, I tried to run an app called Magisk Manager and it keeps promoting to install Magisk. Soon as Magisk downloads though, the install runs, fails and Magisk Manager crashes.

Can you tell me what Magisk actually is? It appears to be a more user-friendly tool for doing some of the hacks required around rooting. But can it actually root a phone as well?
[Galaxy S 4 General] supergrass:
Hi jandroidian, magisk is a systemless root, it adds files outside of the system partition. This makes it easier to hide from apps that refuse to work if the phone is rooted. There are also some cool tools like iPhone emoji which look a lot better than those squished stock android ones.

To root I recommend installing Odin and flashing chainfires root. But be careful to virus check the Odin because some are repacked with malware. After that I flash twrp recovery for I9505, because it lets you flash a bigger selection of Roms. Once you have TWRP make sure you take a nandroid backup before trying any other Rom so you can roll back to a fully working firmware if required. Try looking up these terms from Google or Xda if you need more help
[Galaxy S 4 General] s4goa:
fone on sale in 2021 around 100 bucks. LOS 18.1 = Android11 probably works !
[Galaxy S 4 General] s4goa:
see tech details
[Galaxy S 4 General] sams4:
I am trying to flash crdroid custom rom on this variant but I am getting this error, Can you help me?

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/ __| '__| | | | '__/ _ \| |/ _\`| | (__| | | |__| | | | (_) | | (_| |

| (__| | | |__| | | | (_) | | (_| | \___|_| |_____/|_|_ \___/|_|\__,_| _

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/ \ _ __ __| |_ __ ___ _ __| | / /\ \ | '_ \ / _\`| '__/ _ \| |/ _\`|

/ /\ \ | '_ \ / _\`| '__/ _ \| |/ _\`| / ____ \| | | | (_| | | | (_) | | (_| |

/ ____ \| | | | (_| | | | (_) | | (_| | /_/ \_\_| |_|\__,_|_| \___/|_|\__,_|

/_/ \_\_| |_|\__,_|_| \___/|_|\__,_|

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*********************************************** ROM version : 7.24

ROM version : 7.24 Android version : 11

Android version : 11 Security patch : 2022-11-05

Security patch : 2022-11-05 Build date : Mon Nov 14 03:48:19 CET 2022

Build date : Mon Nov 14 03:48:19 CET 2022***********************************************

*********************************************** Device : jfltexx

Device : jfltexx Manufacturer : Samsung

Manufacturer : Samsung***********************************************

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Extracted file "/tmp/install/bin/backuptool.functions"

Extracted file "/tmp/install/bin/backuptool.sh"

Extracted file "/tmp/install/bin/resize2fs_static"

Extracted 3 file(s)

about to run program [/tmp/install/bin/backuptool.sh] with 5 args

Backup/restore is not possible. Partition is probably empty

Patching system image unconditionally...

Patching system image unconditionally...performing update

blockimg version is 4

maximum stash entries 0

creating stash /cache/recovery/5a79362318d00cf4c316e86435b3ed38dd35082d

353157120 bytes free on /cache (0 needed)

/cache/recovery/last_command doesn't exist.

erasing 384208 blocks

BLKDISCARD ioctl failed: Invalid argument

failed to execute command [erase 4,321327,687616,688641,706560]

new data receiver is still available after executing all commands.

script aborted: E1001: Failed to update system image.

E1001: Failed to update system image.error: 1001

Updater process ended with ERROR: 1

I:Install took 0 second(s).

Error installing zip file '/sdcard/crDroidAndroid-11.0-20221114-jfltexx-v7.24.zip'
[Galaxy S 4 General] hevey:
Hey guys

I am about to start looking at rooting my i9507, I am on the official 4.3 optus rom currently. Has anyone tried running CM lately on this and if so what were your experiences. I would love to move to CM or Omni for this device
[Galaxy S 4 General] IT_Scooter:
Thanks to the OP, I have successfully rooted my I9507 :D