[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] Absolon:
Dear Moderators!

Since I had top stop being active in the development the threads that I started with having a master directory and thus that are left here has become totally stale since they have not been updated in a long time nor do I have current plans to continue.

I don't track this forum and the wonders done with this phone but this post has some real potential danger.

The post is outdated and the information in it could therefore be wrong, faulty or even harmful. And I see it mostly harmful in my point of view, since this was the baby steps taken a long time ago.

Looking at the contents it compares several parts of partition tables and even brave (and foolish) tries of me testing philz recoveries. Now Philz has put some safety code since the Note II/S3 melds but for a less experienced user that look at the names.

"hlte and jflte", sound pretty close that we know is not the case but they reeeely want so badly into the "world" of S4 they could try to alter the partition tables,

that we serve them on a platter and that there are easy utils for

, to TRY make it look like the "real" S4 and really hard brick the phone, or even worse try TWRP of the hlfe "since it was so long time ago" and look at their screen melting away.

Proper scientific rules dictates that if any information is unknown and therefore in a volatile state it should fall under the principle of caution until verified of its validity and safety. I have no insight into that validly and the current development but I highly doubt this post is needed any longer and since this is accessible to the public the "not doing any harm" comes into place and thus this thread should be deleted since if anything useful came out of it it has already been taken into current development and it can cause harm. A lock will not suffice.

Since I know that many posts are not considered being "device specific enough" (like a discussion about lowering the voltage of the kernel) or "cluttering" (explaining the booting process of a kernel works) this post should absolutely fall under some of those rules (or some other that I've yet not encountered) and I strongly think a deletion of this would be more proper then just moving it to the trashcan "General"?

So at least I try to make you see that this post should not be in the trashcan but deleted for the safety of less experienced users.

You can say that they are then stupid. I call them inexperienced. I tried to so many times to post and raise the level of knowledge and we all know where those writing for 8 hours posts went, right?

But this is not about being ignored from "higher devs" about my finding of a side channel attack in the bootloader in 4.3.

This post is just not a safe for those unlucky who got this ****ty phone on their warranty (I got one too). They feel cheated and I understand them.

It's useless, can't use the S4 and not the N9005 stuff. The guys here did an amazing job with it but I had leave. But someone can really do something stupid and and this post gives false "hope". I got some "Pit"-file. Lets try that one...

Since this is also a stub for a "collection" that I also could not finish and I don't recall if I did something more of those but I know you are pros of finding nonsense like this and could you please remove that "clutter" as well? ;)

All the best,

Absie

Abstract

This thread is about testing and finding similarities and differences between the currently two Snapdragon 800 Samsung smartphones, namely the I9506 and Galaxy Note 3 (SM-N9005, hltexx). What we know so far is that they use the same hardware and production line and are separated quite late where they diverge. The theory is therefore that the Samsung Note 3 LTE binaries should work since the development here is non-existent and the similarities are larger between those two then with the previous S4, I9505. The work seem not as straight forward and so far binaries from Note 3 have been incompatible and this thread is about finding our just WHY this is so and how we can try to overcome those problems and have some porting of available ROMs from the major project branches. Similarities with the previous S4 (I9505) will be investigated along the progress of this thread. Since this device is shipped with Android v4.2.2 and without KNOX activated we also need to investigate what activates KNOX and how to avoid that.

Collection of findings

This is a stub of the different pages that will be updated as the progress is ongoing and will be updates as we move along and collect the findings.

General Findings

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Custom Recoveries

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Kernels

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Roms

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Other (KNOX, modems, bootloaders etc)

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