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[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] DeHAWK:
Need to know if you have encrypted your phone. Because this might be the problem. On the train now.

See ya'
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] DeshTwo:
My phone and my ext sd card aren't encrypted

Envoyé de mon GT-I9506 en utilisant Tapatalk
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] DeHAWK:
Thx.
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] Spaïro:
If you need someone to test something I'm available... My i9506 is currently with the 4.3 FR found on sammobile but my WiFi is not working (the fun part is that my Phone is a french one coming from Orange).

BTW my Knox is already triggered...
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] DeHAWK:
Thx. Right now trying to find out why you guys can't flash my image.

Are you already root?

Well I need to test a stock system image, no root, no deodex and nothing removed. Need to find out what goes wrong, is it because of missing files, root or deodex. My image is flashed without problems but after reboot, it's stock on boot screen. I assume that's because of permissions...

Regards.
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] Spaïro:
Yes i'm root, sorry!
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] DeHAWK:
Ok, time for a little bit of info. I've now tested the new 4.3 on my Galaxy S3 LTE. (GT-I9305) NOT ON MY S4 LTE-A!!!. Made myself a special system Odin image, fully DeOdexed, all the KNOX files removed together with a lot of other Samsung and Google crap. I pre-roooted it to...but due to all that new security in 4.3 it didn't work.:mad: But except for the root permissions, everything worked. All counters was tripped :D but I don't care, the big thing here; NO KNOX warranty counter showed up and this was exactly as I expected it to be. I even played with the boot image...but resulting in no WiFi.

Flashed NONE of the critical files, only the system, modem, kernel, cache and hidden. That way I was pretty sure I could revert back to 4.1.2. So after testing 4.3 for some hours, I decided to go back to my good old 4.1.2...I'm not that impressed of 4.3.

So I just created a new tar ball and flashed back all the previously mentioned files, all stock except my system image....Boot looping...

Went to recovery mode, did a factory reset and clear cache. Rebooted.

Yep, I was now back on 4.1.2 with all counters set to normal/official.

Then I just used Titanium Backup to get everything back to the time before the test.

Btw. Since I have removed a lot of sammy files from my phone, I can't use Kies, knew this before the test and had therefore unmounted and removed my SD card from the phone. Furthermore I had made a copy of the internal sd card files to my PC.

So here I am again, back on 4.1.2.:thumbup:

See ya'
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] spflo:
Hi!

Thank you for this ROM (4.2.2)! It´s the only possibility to safely get root on this device without changing all those bootloader flags - everything normal as stated :) Even upgrading from stock I9506XXUAMHE worked without wipe!

Did any i9506 user try the 4.3 ROM from DeHAWK? Is 4.3 worth to upgrade? What about the Knox-flag and the Bootloader flags?

Thank You!

spflo
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] DeHAWK:
Atm. the 4.3 has been pulled back. There seems to be some issues with the permissions.

I personally don't think 4.3 is worth upgrading. There is a lot of people who have big problem's with the su.

I will stay on 4.2.2 until I have found a solution. Also working on new kernel, but haven't been able to make it work atm. due to problems with the sources.

See ya'
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] DeHAWK:
Ok guys, good news. Have now managed to flash a custom kernel without this vierd error. Samsung signs their kernels....

Lol...but so did I...but in a different way. No more info, the enemy is reading.

Stay tuned :)
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] Spoutnik1333:
CSC

Hi Sir,

Thank you for your job

You post

"When you flash this image, you loose your CSC, which contains your carrier speficic data. But I will show how to make it come back.

You will need to flash a file from the stock firmware file called cache.img.ext4

But you can't flash this file right away, it needs to be packed in a special format and added a md5 sum..."

Could you give more explanation, because i flashed your pre-rooted rom 4.2.2 and as you say I loose my Csc.

I would like CSC come back!!!

Regards
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] DeHAWK:
Testing of PowerAmp done! Test made on: Bootloader 4.2.2, my latest 4.3 kernel for 4.2.2 bootloader and then the 4.3 KNOX OUT system.

Result: Woooow, this is one hell of an app. It's working just perfect!

Took me a little time to figure out how it worked, had a very high CPU frequency while playing MP3. But after a reset, just working like a dream.

CPU freq. while playing is 300 Mhz, while screen is OFF and volume controls worded perfect.

Tested: Playing using built in speaker and then plugged in earphones. Switch over instantly and played in earphones.

Removed earphones and instantly switched over speaker. Bas, Treble and equalizer tested and works like a charm.

Removed headphone, phone went to deep sleep. Then plugged in headphones...PowerAmp started up and continued to play from where I left it when removing earphones.

I really can't find any problems. I think I just have to purchase this app.

Case closed.

Regards.
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] papete:
I never thought that the behavior would be so different between two different set of headphones, after all, they are just headphones (but it is, just tested with stock headphones and works fine).

Poweramp is nice isn't it...

Thanks and best regards
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] DeHAWK:
Yeah, very nice indeed. I decided to buy the licence. As said, I never used headphones because of the terrible sound of this phone. But now, it's a real pleasure to listen to music on the phone. I've tried a lot of other applications to get better sound, but never heard of PowerAmp until now.

So thanks guys for opening my eyes and...ears.

Regards.
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] kotaxor:
Just flash the Knox Out kernel, will monitor it for a while.

Thanks for another awesome kernel.

Edit: So far so good.

Any fix yet regarding the screen mirroring?

Power amp IS awesome, have been using for a long time with Viper.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2191223
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] mezo91:


---------- Post added at 05:27 AM ---------- Previous post was at 05:27 AM ----------

I want them to release it already. Cant wait another month for 4.4.x update
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] kotaxor:
Lol..even after they release..still have to wait for DeHAWK to pre-root it.
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] DeHAWK:
Good morning guys.

I need some feedback about my latest released kernels for 4.2.2 and 4.3 bootloaders. As said earlier, I made a special device tree for both of these. That's one of the reasons why it's so small.

I'm of course using it myself and I haven't perceived any problems.

This special dtb should also make it easier for me to get the upcoming 4.4.3 to work.

Regards.
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] kotaxor:
Working great here.

Using Knox Out version.
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] WonkyYew:
Using new kernel everything seems to be running smoothly!
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] papete:
It is working great, no issues here...
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] mezo91:
Can you make a flashable zip of rom? Or I can make it myself if you tell me how. I like flashing from custom recovery much easier than odin on pc.
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] kotaxor:
+1, and flashable zip of kernels in the future too!

Thanks!
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] mar10o:
Hey guys! You won't belive in what I see now..

I've flashed newest 4.3 NEE firmware (I9506XXUBNE1_I9506NEEBNE1_I9506XXUBMK7_HOME.tar) with KNOX from sammobile, and my phone is still KNOX-free. I have red messages with KERNEL and RECOVERY not secure, but everything else is working?!

I don't have KNOX flag in dowload mode, system status is custom. How this is possible? I wanted a Official system status and I can't get it working LOL.

I've unrooted and wiped 4.2.2 before 4.3 flash, everything went ok with flashing..

DeHAWK, I had once your kernel, but I've reverted back to 4.2.2 official with wipe.
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] papete:
Just noticed that I'm having problems with my SD card. Pictures I take that are supposed to be stored there are saved but after a little somehow they get erased. I thought it was some app but I've freezed every app that could be doing something and I'm still having problems saving pics there. Had to move the location to the internal memory, and they are saved fine there. SD card is new, and was working great.

I noticed maybe a couple of days ago that the SD card was unexpectedly removed and had to reboot the phone.

Could you check if your SD card is working as it should?

Thanks

P. D. I can't do verifications as I'm on holidays now... Lots of pics were lost because of this :(
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] altahichamzio:
Kernel ok form me, thank you for the hard work :good:
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] DeHAWK:
Hey

I've just taken over 100 photos and some videos. All stored on external Samsung Pro 64 GB micro SDXC card.

After taken the photos, I just checked; all there. I'll keep on checking the following days.

I'm very sorry about your lost photos man. Have a beer and keep on reporting. :)

I have a lot of stuff on this card and have never lost anything.

Happy holiday.

Regards.
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] DeHAWK:
Hey bro.

Now this is very strange. Did you run a custom recovery to?

If you flashed a full 4.3, it should have shown KNOX status in download mode...unless Samsung has changed something in the bootloader. I've checked this update and it seems to be KNOX v2.O, but not sure. I compared the kernel against the previous and it hasn't changed.

Why do you have custom in status? - no idea. I need to make some hacking. In the system image, only a few changes has been made. But enough to make rooting a serious problem, at least the way I do it.

Do you, under More, etc. have anything saying something about an original Samsung bootloader?

Regards.
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] mar10o:
I had custom status after 4.2.2 root and debloating. I downloaded and flashed full 4.3 to test towelroot on official system. I had original 4.2.2 recovery. I've flashed 4.3 twice with same result.

BTW. towelroot is working like a charm

Wysłane z mojego GT-I9506
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] DeHAWK:
Hey

So you're on 4.3 now. OK, try flashing a full 4.2.2, I'll like to see if you can flash the bootloader and the other 4.2.2 stuff.

This is indeed very strange. I wonder if it did flash the bootloader at all, but still says it did.

What Odin version did you use?

Regards.
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] mar10o:
I'm not at home at the moment, but AFAIR it was 3.09 from sammobile. Mega upload link.

I think I will leave it this way and let's wait for 4.4.3 in the next month. Maybe it will stay knox-free also, that will be great!

I've checked firmware file and it has all the dangerous files like aboot, kernel and stuff...

Wysłane z mojego GT-I9506

Ok, so here are some screenshots

And a movie...

http://youtu.be/n6x5iQXl2k8
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] DeHAWK:
Hey

I see you have a problem with your CSC/HIDDEN.

Regards.
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] mar10o:
Dunno, it's like that since the flash

Wysłane z mojego GT-I9506

So I was thinking about it.. maybe KNOX 2.0 is only a update to KNOX 1.0, that's way my phone stays KNOX free?

Wish someone with 4.2.2 will be brave enought to test it.. :)

BTW. I've tested CSC Selector and it says that I have single CSC installed..
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] harrisnehal:
Can I flash the 4.3 knox free rom from OP (last one)?

MODEL: GT-I9506 KS01LTE

CSC: I9506OLBBND1 (XSP-Singapore)

CP: I9506XXUBMK7

AP: I9506XXUBND2

ANDROID: 4.3 latest with knox 0*0 (recently updated via OTA)

ROOTED: Towel Root (Did, Yesterday)

APPS: SuperSu v1.99 & Busybox (Installed only to made EFS backup via EFS Professional)

Screenshot attached:

(The below pic was taken before root. After rooted, Only System Status changed from 'Official' to 'Custom')
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] Alestilohomer:
You can flash it, but your knox will change to 0x1

Enviado desde mi Nexus 7 mediante Tapatalk
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] harrisnehal:
I did it. Now I am KNOX Free. with Knox warranty 0*1 (Who Carez)

I just wanna tell you that when the first time system boots, there is "SAFE MODE" display on the left bottom of the screen. But after I first reboot, All Good in a Hood.

Thanks in Million to Dev.
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] papete:
OK, I'm back... After some tests, it was the SD card. That's the thing with SD cards, they work great, until they stop working...

Fortunately for me I detected the issue the first day and some of the pics I thought were lost were saved by the Google auto backup (thanks Google)

Thanks for looking at it.

Regards
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] stephaned:
----already posted that in CWM thread by trying here also, in case any of you on DeHAWK tried a similar thing, tks---

Hi,

I have 2x i9506 and currently running DeHAWK rooted ROM on both of them...

Today I got curious and tried to upgrade one of them to CyanogenMod 11.0 from Solk2 to give it a try and see how far it is, so as indicated I started by trying to install CWM with ODIN (on top of DeHAWK ROM), while doing so the CWM install in ODIN and now stuck with a "bricked" phone... see screenshots:

View attachment 2815280

View attachment 2815281

I can still access ODIN but cannot seem to upload anything and always get the same message from ODIN and from the phone:

ODIN

<ID:0/012> Firmware update start..

<ID:0/012> recovery.img

<ID:0/012> NAND Write Start!!

<ID:0/012> Complete(Write) operation failed.

<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)

Phone

"Invalid percent of drawing download progress bar!"

Any idea what I should do to recover it?

Tks in advance.
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] mezo91:
how do you have dehawk prerooted with knox 0x0?

did you flash dehawk kernel after flash them slim rom? I think not bcuz ur knox still 0x0.

You could always flash stock rom to fix.
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] DeHAWK:
Hey

I wonder the same...but anyway, does this recovery contain a md5?

If not, this might be the problem.

First try flash stock 4.3 Recovery from my OP. Strange, because the Recovery has nothing to do with the kernel or system flash. That's why I suspect a corrupted recovery file.

This is why I always make my files with md5 and check it and the zip.

If trying to flash a corrupted md5 file, Odin simply denies to flash and will report that md5 failed...if no md5, this could happen.

But don't worry, I have had this many times while flashing. Just remove battery, hold volume down and power button and reinsert battery. This should take you directly to download mode.

Regards.

EDIT

As I suspected....clean recovery.img.

No md5.

Never ever flash a non .md5 file. You have no guarantee that the download was not screwed up.

Edit 2

Seems like solk2 has a md5 file for odin. Try that.
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] stephaned:
Tks a lot for your help... I tried your recovery and still get the same issue (in download mode) - see ODIN log...

Is the ODIN version important? I have tried with 1.8.5 and 3.0.9...

<ID:0/012> Added!!

<OSM> Enter CS for MD5..

<OSM> Check MD5.. Do not unplug the cable..

<OSM> Please wait..

<OSM> SGS4_43_NEE_STOCK_RECOVERY.tar.md5 is valid.

<OSM> Checking MD5 finished Sucessfully..

<OSM> Leave CS..

<ID:0/012> Odin v.3 engine (ID:12)..

<ID:0/012> File analysis..

<ID:0/012> SetupConnection..

<ID:0/012> Initialzation..

<ID:0/012> Get PIT for mapping..

<ID:0/012> Firmware update start..

<ID:0/012> recovery.img

<ID:0/012> NAND Write Start!!

<ID:0/012> Complete(Write) operation failed.

<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)

<ID:0/012> Removed!!

<ID:0/012> Added!!

On a side note, maybe on this phone I was not running your ROM, a colleague switched this phone a few time and maybe this phone was in fact on stock 4.3. Could it be the reason? I mean trying to install CWM on a stock 4.3 (with KNOX)?
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] DeHAWK:
Hey

Solk2 recommends the 4.3 bootloader and you're on the 4.3 bootloader. This is very strange, you should be able to flash the solk2 cwm version for Odin by following his guide. Since you already are on 4.3, try flash a full original 4.3 firmware for your country/carrier to get back to 100% original firmware. Please let me know how it works.

You should be able to flash with v1.85 of Odin, but please try the other versions too.

When you are back on 100% stock, try follow the solk2 guide.

Good luck.

Regards.
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] DeHAWK:
Heading for bed guys it's, been a hard day of work.

See ya tomorrow
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] stephaned:
I managed to find the issue... something was odd as nothing I was flashing with ODIN worked. Tried a reboot, but still the same issue... so try to change USB port, end ed up getting a different COM number and it worked. Thanks for your support.

On a side note, never got round to say thanks for your ROM that use on my day phone (the other i9506) :)
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] kotaxor:
Hi DeHAWK,

Just found out init.d is not working in Knox_Out version.

Had to use term-init from here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1933849

Maybe it's just on my side but would just like to report this.

Thanks
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] DeHAWK:
Hey

Just checked it with the file from the thread you pointed to...

And you're right, it didn't work. Now that's strange, I need to look deeper into this. It's being set up in the kernel image, but I must admit that I never had time to test it.

Thx for reporting. :thumbup:

Regards.
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] DeHAWK:
Hey

I was thinking about it, cable and USB port, but ignored it because you had flashed before without any problems.

Glad to hear you found the problem.

Regards.
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] DeHAWK:
Hey

OK, I have found the problem. Not sure what went wrong, but it must have been while I created both the ramdisk and system image. Stupid me, this is probably why I couldn't get root access on the lastes open Europe 4.3 release. I'll make a new kernel image and a updated system image based on the latest 4.3 release. Sorry for the inconvenience.

I just need the time to fix it, have so much to do on my job right now. Working over every day.

Regards.

EDIT

Testing Tapatalk....
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] DeHAWK:
Testing.
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] DeHAWK:
Seems that I have to stop use my XDA Premium app. It just gives me so many forced closed that it's not worth using. This happens on both my S4+ and S3 LTE.

It was actually working before they made the update.

See ya
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] DeHAWK:
Test.
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] DeHAWK:
Seems to be working very well.

But only time will show.

Stay tuned guys.

Send from my GT-I9506 using Tapatalk
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] kotaxor:
Thanks for looking into this, take your time as term-init seem to be working fine.

Waiting for your new kernel update, hope it come in flashable zip too.;)

Much appreciated.
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] harrisnehal:
Screen shot :
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] DeHAWK:
Hey

If you accidentally press the Volume down a couple of seconds, while on the splash screen (boot animation) - phone will boot into safe mode. [emoji4]

Another tip:

No need to hold the Home button when booting to either Download mode or Recovery mode.

From OFF: Press and hold Volume Down and Power to enter Download mode.

From OFF: Press and hold Volume Up and Power to enter Recovery mode.

Above method also works during a normal reset.

Regards.

Send from my GT-I9506 using Tapatalk
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] DeHAWK:
Just a quick update.

The init.d kernel issue has been fixed. Now working perfectly, even on the latest 4.3 Open Nordic/Open Europe firmware (XXUBNE1).

The root access problem on the lastes Open Nordic/Open Europe released firmware now fixed.

BUT there seems to be a couple of other issues I need to fix before I can release the lastes system image. The task manager and packet manager makes forced close. This makes it' impossible to install apps from Play Store and to clear the memory. But otherwise it seems to work.

I really can't see or feel any difference against the version I made before. .

I might just release the kernel atm. to fix the init.d problem.

Regards.

Send from my GT-I9506 using Tapatalk
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] kotaxor:
I think able to install/update from Play store is important. Any way the term-init is working.

Take your time. Thanks
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] harrisnehal:
I just flashed unofficial cwm. Afterward, I backed up the rom.

My question are:

Can I use xposed mod?

If there is any issue in flashing mod, then can I just restore via cwm?
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] mezo91:
Yes you can use xposed framework, wanam xposed too. Im using them myself.
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] DeHAWK:
Update.

All problems with latest XXUBNE1 firmware is now solved. Just need some time make it ready for download.

This updated 4.3 system image, also contains the updated kernel image. Kernel image has the init.d issue fixed and also made compatible with this latest system firmware. You can't use the kernel you're currently running with this system. The kernel download link will be updated too. This is atm. running without problems on my 4.2.2 bootloader and will therefore also run on the 4.3 bootloader.

I don't have any idea about the CSC, but I think it should work with the existing ones. I'll probably test this later if I have the time.

Regards.

Updated information 1th of July.

Very good news guys; the existing 4.3 combined CSC/Hidden for 4.3 KNOX OUT can be used on this new firmware.

Both 4.2.2 and 4.3 bootloader users should use this, when my new files are ready.

Have just tested the Open Nordic CSC/ Hidden from 4.3 KNOX OUT. Working like a charm.

New system will be nearly as the current one. - 3 apps will be back; stock video player, stock music player and the Email app.

Furthermore the removed apps download link will be updated. Will as now, contain all the removed apps in updated versions.

I only remove the apps in the public version, this to make it easier for you to install other apps.

On my own personal system, I have of course removed a lot more. You can of course do the same.

I'll be back with further instructions.
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] DeHAWK:
Update.

Guys, I know what you're waiting for and I'm trying my best. But I see a really strange behaviour on my phone. Everything seems to work perfectly, until phone is turned ON after being in OFF for several hours. The CSC returns to default English. I personally find this very annoying. Also had other strange problems with the video player after installing the CSC, but all this now fixed.

I'll be back with more updates.

Regards.
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] DeHAWK:
Update.

All 4.3 download links disabled due to updating to latest version.

4.2.2 systems will from now on be removed.

4.2.2 bootloader users should use the latest 4.3 KNOX OUT system

Regards.