yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] bgmg:
Sprint is slow on pushes in my area. I just got the NG5 push this morning, but I didn't install it. This allowed me to update the steps in the MISC section of the OP for hiding the update notification with NotifyClean.

Here is the NotifyClean instructions:

1) Start/enter the NotifyClean module in xposed framework.

2) Scroll down and tap on Google Play Services.

3) Tap "System Update Downloaded". It should now be highlighted in red. If you don't see this choice, it means that you did not have NotifyClean installed prior to the upgrade notification firing/appearing. A notification has to fire once for NotifyClean to capture it. If you installed NotifyClean after receiving the update notification, reboot your phone a couple of times. This should cause the notification to re-fire and NotifyClean to capture it. At this point, you should now be able to go back into the module and see the System Update Downloaded under Google Play Services. Don't forget to tap it to highlight it in red. When is in red, it's turned off.

4) Press the back button to back out of module and reboot.

NOTE: You can go back into NotifyClean at any time in the future, unhide the upgrade notification, reboot, and upgrade to NG5 when you are ready.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Cooljb:
I tried Galaxy Tools both before and after rooting (on NG5). It didn't work either way. I used CF-Auto-Root. After rooting and trying Galaxy Tools, it killed my LTE data. As in, I had no data. I used the Restore from HFA to get my data back and then downloaded the WiFi Tether Router app and it worked perfectly the first time.

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What do you mean by wifi being screwed? I am not having any issues with wifi - either tethering or connecting to a wifi network. Both work fine for me using WiFi Tether Router app on NG5, rooted using CF-Auto-Root.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] JerryGNYC:
Restore from HFA? What's that (please)?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] shadowswittness:
When I updated Knox kept popping up and I couldn't turn on wifi or hotspot. I removed all knox crappie and still didn't help.

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When I updated Knox kept popping up and I couldn't turn on wifi or hotspot. I removed all knox crappie and still didn't help.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] gersrt:
Unlock

Hi Guys

Ive been reading the thread sprint s5 community sim unlock and they seem to be making a lot of progress including writing to access denied nvram areas. Its worth a read and I believe it will help the 720T unlock.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] mfr213:
NG5 updated over towelroot'ed NC6

The NG5 update was pushed to my phone this morning and I mistakenly selected the update. I was sure it would fail as my phone had been rooted with towelroot. But no, it updated successfully and removed root.

I want to avoid setting Knox flag for a few months, so hope I can still get native Wifi tether capability patched with the telephony.db file.

I am not having having any problems with Wifi capability as some others are reporting.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Cooljb:
I didn't have any of those problems with mine. My wifi and hotspot work fine. Sorry.:(
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] bgmg:
Can you please provide url in a private message if you are unable to post links?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] gersrt:
Here ya go

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2743024.

If you need a nvram dump from an unlocked 720T send me a PM. Theres a guy on here who might be able to help us with this. But will need to ask him first.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] mulletcutter:
ng5 modem tar?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] easyrider77:
Well I thought I had the disabling ota on this sprint SPH-L720T Samsung s4, but it seems I don't.

I've been reading and found to disable, delete or rename the file name SDM.apk and the file was supposed to be in the system/app folder, but I can't find that file.

So, a couple of questions....

1: what file or files do I need to freeze, rename, delete to disable ota updates?

2: I will be rooted, but that's it. I am rooting with towwlroot so as not to trip Knox. I was told a xposed module would disable ota but my question is to use xposed do you have to install it via a custom recovery? If so that not an option because I do not want to trip Knox.

Also does it trip Knox at all by installing or using it? ie: modify the boot loader or anything.

I'd be much more comfortable doing the first way honestly, so if way #1 is possible I'd rather do that way, just need to know what files and where they are located.

If anyone can help I'd be most appreciative.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Dngrsone:
So, Google recommends that I uninstall towelroot, because apparently it is bad... :rolleyes:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] easyrider77:
I don't know that I'd say Google as much as I would say Samsung. Samaung is the one who sent the update out.

Samsung is really ticking me off lately as their cracking down on things becoming more proprietary lately. They didn't learn a thing from apple and being so locked down.

I buy a phone I should be able to do as I see fit, just as if I buy a house, I feel like painting the rooms hot pink or zebra stripes I should have the right to do it with no adverse affects.

Anyways to each their own, I guess if Google or Samsung or whoever else thinks it's bad, then so be it, I personally think it opens options to the user.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] bgmg:
Yes Google began rolling out a security policy notification a short time ago...The notification detects installed towelroot application and suggest you remove it.

I recommend you do not tell the notification to uninstall towelroot (just in case it also tries to apply a security patch to towelroot). Then if you want, uninstall the towelroot app yourself.

If you have already run towelroot and gained root permission/control, you can remove the towelroot app and you will still retain root. Uninstalling the towelroot app does not make you lose root.

And removing the app may prevent other code or apps from using the towelroot exploit.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] bgmg:
Installing xposed framework does not require a custom recovery and will not trip knox. I have it on my phone and my knox is 0x0.

I believe the sdm.apk option is on the att model gs4 and does not exist on the sprint 720T

Xposed framework installer can be downloaded here http://repo.xposed.info/module/de.robv.android.xposed.installer

I'll add this to the download section of the OP.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] easyrider77:
Awesome thanks. I forgot the name of the mod that does the remove or whatever of the ota, do you know the name off hand?

Thanks for the reply. I was getting worried I wasn't going to be able to towelroot this thing tomorrow.

I'm hoping this mod works for this phone and does disable the ota because I really don't wanna go thru flashing nc6 and root for nothing all to have it auto update and erase everything I did.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] bgmg:
The module is called NoyifyClean" and now I'm little confused. What version are you on (mk5, nc6, ng5, etc)?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] easyrider77:
Awesome I'll give that mod a try and hope it works.

Phone: SPH-L720T sprint Samsung s4.

I am currently on ng5 in which towelroot doesn't work because the have plugged up the android root exploit that towelroot uses. I have downloaded the nc6 firmware and will flash the phone back to nc6, then use towelroot and SuperSU to root the phone, then disable the ota so I can stay on nc6 and stay rooted

I have read multiple ways for the s4 and it really depends on the make or model, because not all the methods work for each and every s4 out there.

This is a prime example of just that.....For the methods I've seen it says to disable, freeze, rename a file and that file is nowhere on my phone. I was informed that is a file on the att model of the s4.

I hope that clarifies things a bit better :D

Again thank you very much for your patience and taking the time to help me with this.

If there is anything else I might be missing please let me know. I am going to do this tomorrow at the library so I have the needed files already downloaded and ready to go. I can't think of anything I am missing, so I should be set to go.

Note: I don't want to trip Knox that's why I am choosing this way.

I just hope this works on my phone make and model is all.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] bgmg:
I don't know if you can successfully go back down to NC6. Good luck and let know what happens.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Dngrsone:
I was under the impression that if one does a factory reset, it puts the phone back to its original install. In the case of my S4, that would be NC6.

Has that changed?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] shadowswittness:
No it keeps the NG5 update. When my wifi was screwed I did a factor reset. I had to flash back to stock via odin.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] JerryGNYC:
Factory resets do not put firmware back to their original state. The reset clears out any data and configuration changes a user has added/made. If you updated to NG5 and did a factory reset, you'd still have NG5, but your phone would like you'd just taken it of the box (an NG5 "box").

The old/original/latest firmware is overwritten when you update. The phone does not store a version to revert to. This also holds true for HTC devices, and probably most, if not all Android devices.

FWIW, my Palm Pre with WebOS did a factory reset in the same fashion.

HTH,

-Jerry
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] easyrider77:
Well this is a samsung official download. They said flash it via Odin so I don't think it will be an issue. It's like flashing a ROM really only it's firmware. If it bricks I'll just take it back to best buy and exchange it, but I don't it will. I've flashed and rooted for some time now do I'm pretty comfortable with Odin and flashing. Done it so many times on my s2 and s3 I can pretty much do stuff in my sleep :p

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Omg! Ha!!!!! My first androidish phone I ever had lol......loved the concept of the os it was awesome. To bad it's gone now, Motorola I think it was that made it let it just die off.... Rip!

Then came my Samsung moment and it's top of the line 800mhz processor, then a few months later the HTC came out. I had my moment for two years heh. Oh the good old days.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] td030981:
I have went from NC6 to the rom before it. Then took the update back to NC6. With Odin of course. But yes it can be done. And maybe cause its still kit kat. Not sure about changing from kit kat to ice cream sandwich or something like that.

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NAF was the rom I down graded to from NC6
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] easyrider77:
Yeah, it was naf then nc6 and now ng5. Ng5 is what plugs the hole towwlroot method uses.

In on ng5 now I am just downgrading to nc6 since towelroot works on that firmware, doing it via Odin and an official nc6 samsung firmware file.

In short:

-flash firmware via Odin

-reboot, turn off data to prevent update

-root using towelroot

-fix the ota file

-reboot and enjoy being rooted without worrying about the ota updating to ng5
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] bgmg:
Palm pre also my first androidish phone. In fact I went from palm pre to gs4..lol. hung on to my palm for a long time.

It was HP that bought palm not motorola. It was a great OS.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] bgmg:
I normally use wifi tether router; however, I just tried native hotspot for first time in awhile since I did the telephony.db mod several weeks ago and it no longer works. It used to work but now Im getting a new error. See screen shot.

Does anyone have any ideas?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] bgmg:
On a different tower and not getting the error now. Native hotspot working once again... Strange... tried native hotspot four times on tower closest to my work and it gave me this same data error every time but wifi tether router was solid in both places.

I guess the moral of the story is wifi tether router wins again.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] bgmg:
By the way, If you all have not tried using the wifi tether router widget yet. You need to try it. One single touch on an icon(widget) to turn tether on and one single touch on the same icon to turn tether off. I never go into the app anymore, its great.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] JerryGNYC:
Went from the Pre (I still miss it), to an OG EVO, then the EVO 4G LTE. Sigh...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] easyrider77:
At the library right now so hopefully I can get a quick reponse so my time doesn't run out.

I downloaded the nc6 tar file and it tells me md5 mismatch. I'm not real familiar with those but I know they are basically a signing of sorts or a verification type.

That aside though, so as to speed the process up.....is it possible a faulty download could cause a bad md5? I'm guessing yes, so am downloading now, and hope this is all that's wrong because I can't proceed any further right now.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Pioneer305:
Yes a md5 missmatch can be a bad download.

Sent from Sph-l720T rooted 4.4.2 with xda app
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Dngrsone:
Late reply, sorry. But, yes, an MD5 mismatch generally means you have a bad file and don't want to use it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] easyrider77:
Bleh. No PC or laptop really blows. Limited income prevents me from getting one atm, but that on top of no decent WiFi REALLY sux!

I've been at this since 9 am and it's now 11:30am all because of this one file. If I had a decent WiFi I could get it downloaded. Sigh. Such a pain just to flash back ugh.

Thanks for the replies though, it confirms my suspicions and that I was correct in my thinking.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] bgmg:
You can download the file to your sd card using your phone (4g LTE data) then take your sdcard out of your phone and put it into a pc.

If you are using a free sam mobile account, the download will be slow no matter what because they choke the free account; but if you initiate the download via your phone to your sd card it will just work in the background all day and when you finally get the whole file you can then go to a pc.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] easyrider77:
I did that last night, thats where the md5 check came from this morning.

My guess is this stupid ng5 is causing Wi-Fi and data issues, so me downloading it via this data it didn't get downloaded correctly, that why I get the md5 check error. I'm going to download it on a good PC connection then save it to the SD card for later of I need it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] td030981:
I tried the native wifi and couldn't get it to work. Phone would boot up fine but I had not data. The wifi would come on but with no data it was useless lol. So wifi tether router for. Works flawless but wasn't aware of the widget.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] bgmg:
Widget is the bomb.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] td030981:
Sounds like I need to update lol. Thanks
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] conflikt:
Is there any flashable ng5 roms or a flashable ng5 update?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] mikeberding:
I have the update that I snatched using OTA Snatcher. It is NG5, but as I said in a previous post, the wifi is broked.

unless there has been a fix....
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] bgmg:
In downloads section of the OP, you will find the OTA NG5 zip file.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] ro.tandon:
I used the .tar from SamMobile with odin. WiFi is working fine for me.

http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/3/?download=35325
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] mulletcutter:
quick ?, ng5 rootable? CF-auto root work?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] 2WhiteWolves:
Yes
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] mikeberding:
Assert Failed

I am trying to flash the NG5 zip in the OP but am getting Assert Failed error.

ANy thoughts?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] easyrider77:
Possible bad download.

I had to download 2 times because my first download gave me a md5 error and would bail out after that, so I re-downloaded it again the 2nd time and it worked fine.

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Yes rootable just not with towelroot. Via cm I think still works but the ng5 patched a hole that towelroot method uses to root so it doesn't work on ng5.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] mulletcutter:
Tried to update to ng5 and it failed. But not like anything really I need from it. Also screen rotation isnt working, I have it selected.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Cooljb:
I just want to chime in for WiFi Tether Router - FTW! And the widget makes it even better. No fuss no muss, worked perfectly first time. I'm rooted (CF-Auto-Root, on NG5). I could never get the native hotspot working using Galaxy Tools app, so I tried WiFi Tether Router and never looked back.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Cooljb:
Just because I was determined to get native hotspot working, I tried the telephony.db method and so far it has worked flawlessly. I had also tried using Galaxy Tools app, but could not get native hotspot to work with it. Also have WiFi Tether Router working as well. I like having a back-up method if either one of these working methods craps out for any reason.

FYI - I'm rooted with CF-Auto-Root, running NG5 stock.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] bgmg:
Agreed. My thoughts exactly.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] ro.tandon:
When I tried the telephony.db method my phone (or something related com...phone... ) kept crashing on reboot. I am on NG5 and wonder if you did something different than documented in OP?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] bgmg:
Everything I did is in the OP. It will be interesting to see what cooljb says.

I also wander if I should take Galaxy tools off of the op as a hotshot solution. Someone who has experience trying galaxy tools needs to reach out to the creator of galaxy tools, because the maker certified it will work on 720T in the OP and supposedly it does the same telephony.db switch. It just does the copying for you... Again supposedly.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Cooljb:
I more or less did what's posted in the OP. The only difference might be after not getting hotspot to work with the Galaxy Tools app, I did the "Restore via HFA" option from Galaxy Tools (you could do the same thing by doing ##72786# in the phone dialer). Once I had done that and started experimenting with the other methods, I was able to get both WiFi Tether Router and the telephony.db method to work. Don't know if that makes any difference or not, but that's how I did it.

I did reach out to idone (developer of the Galaxy Tools app) and he had me try several different things, but none of them worked. I haven't heard back from him since I sent him the results of his last suggestion, which was a couple of days ago. I'm not really concerned about using Galaxy Tools now though, since the telephony.db accomplishes the same thing. There seems to be a quirk in the Galaxy Tools app that doesn't play nice with either the 720T or NG5 (or both).

So just for kicks, try doing either the "Restore via HFA" option from Galaxy Tools (or ##72786# in phone dialer), and then try the telephony.db method again and see if that does it.

One more thing, I still have Galaxy Tools installed on my phone, along with WiFi Tether Router, and don't have any issues with either of them.

Good Luck. :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] mikeberding:
Okay boys and girls. After many failed attempts at updating to ng5 I am thoroughly confused when I reverted back, yet again, to nc6. However the modem became ng5 at some point. ..
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] easyrider77:
It looks like you just flashed the modem only, that's why the baseband is ng5, and build is still nc6.

Baseband = modem,

Build number = firmware,

If I recall right flashing the firmware will flash the modem and build both.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] hllywd:
OK I just did the telephony mod in the OP and the phone is fine. Where is the native hotspot button supposed to be? I can't find anything to turn it on. Thanks

Oh, I'm stock rooted nc6
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] mikeberding:
right. but when I flashed the firmware, it never flashed the modem. So I pulled the modem, flashed the ng5 firmware and flashed the modem it didn't stay. I had ng5 build with nc6 modem. When I then flashed the nc6 firmware and i had ng5 software and mode, but nc6 build.

the ota and other flashables never flashed the modem for me... but when I flashed the nc6, planning to downgrade the modem, it didn't happen. I had Ng5....
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] easyrider77:
Are you rooted using a like custom recovery?

I'm not 100% positive but I think of you rooted and used a custom recovery you'll have to flash them seperatly, ie: modem and build separately. I also don't think a official firmware will work with a custom recovery, I could be wrong though, I've never tried it to see.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Cooljb:
Go into settings, to the Connections tab, third toggle from the top is Hotspot.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] hllywd:
Mine shows wifi calling, WiFi, Bluetooth, data usage, and more networks.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] bgmg:
Here is what it is supposed to look like. Third one down is hotspot.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Cooljb:
That's very strange. Maybe someone more knowledgeable than me can shed some light on why you can't see the Hotspot toggle. It's supposed to be there below WiFi...

If it were me, I would go ahead and flash the full NG5 rom from sammobile (you won't lose any data). You will have to re-root and do the telephony.db modification again though. But that should get you the hotspot toggle back, plus you might as well get the latest version (NG5). Is there any reason you specifically want to stay on NC6?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] bgmg:
This is a longshot but makes me wander if you have a 720 instead of a 720T and maybe the 720 is a little different in the hospital location.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] hllywd:
All my settings show 720t. I guess I just haven't thought about ng5 nor heard much about it good or bad.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] bgmg:
On 720T the third one down should be hotspot no matter which version you are on (MK5, NAF, NC6, and NG5)

I'm on stock NC6 and as you can see in the earlier picture I posted, third one down is hotspot.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] letoan1:
Thank you. telephony.db method works like a charm.