yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Shockz:
Just flash the xposed disabler in recovery or use the app?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] brizey:
Yep. It's not just Samsung, been around for a while. Had to do the same thing on the thunderbolt (almost) three years ago (flash sense ROM then back to aosp). Typically once you do it once you are good on the the ROM even for reflashes.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Danvdh:
Awesome!

I was really trying to solve your problem for you, your reports are appreciated and I'm glad things are looking better :)

have fun on your ski trip! the conditions will be better then +10 degree sochi, gotta love the palm tree's there
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] tsk138:
Well, you were right. It did indeed work. Thanks!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] ks3rv3rg:
It isn't initially active until you install the framework. You can also disable it via the app once you have enabled.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] WishinItWas:
You can backup the ROM your on now as your all setup and then restore your TW ROM, get GPS lock, the. Restore this ROM.

A clean install is not required for the GPS lock fix.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] mrw1215:
Thinking of trying out this ROM. Do gapps need to be flashed with it, or is that not necessary? I notice the file size of this ROM seems a little bigger than a lot of the custom ROMs I see that need gapps flashed with them, so I was just curious.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] joshm.1219:
They're included
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] harrytery:
By they're included you mean the play store app is included. You need to download everything else - gmails, maps, etc
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Danvdh:
Anything you can DL from the play store is not included
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] mb27:
Using the 2-21-14 build on my VZW 32GB S4 with MK2:

I haven't even used it for 24 hours yet, but so far I have to say I am quite impressed with this ROM. I have tried almost everything out there, and other than Beans b7 4.2.2 ROM, this is the only one that will display the track title and artist on my cars display when streaming music over bluetooth (everything else will just say Unknown). I'm sure such a feature is insignificant to many but to me it's always been a deal breaker when trying anything else. :good:

Some additional feedback:

As far as having LTE automatically on boot - that did not happen, I had 3G only. But, I changed it one time and the settings have stuck through several reboots and I've had solid LTE.

GPS - seems to be no problems. I got a signal inside my house nearly instantly. Haven't had the chance to try it out much more than that.

Auto-brightness seems to be a bit overactive sometimes. I certainly wouldn't say it's flickering.. but I noticed in some conditions the brightness level changes every few seconds and it is slightly annoying. Not a huge deal, and most of the time it's imperceptible.

Tethering/wi-fi hotspot: This is also just a minor issue, not a huge deal, but I'm not quite sure what to make of it. The hotspot turns on quickly, and I can connect other devices to it quickly as well. For some odd reason, it takes a few minutes before connected devices can actually access the internet through the hotspot. Could be a Verizon issue for all I know..

Idle battery: only dropped 2% while I slept for 8 hours. Nice! I'm used to seeing a 1% drop per hour on idle.

Some questions:

Is it possible to independently disable haptic feedback on the lock screen? I know I can uncheck "Vibrate on touch" in the Sound menu, but that disables all haptic feedback system wide. It would be nice to disable it on just the lock screen.

Are there any mods to enable a Touchwiz-like notification menu where toggles and notifications are simultaneously displayed?

Thanks and keep up the good work!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] jarredp93:
Hmmm tried searching the thread to no avail. For some reason whenever I reboot, superuser is telling me to "Install Superuser" and that the binary is out of date. However nothing ever comes of it so I'm not sure if its really important or not. Help?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] mb27:
Do you see Superuser in the settings menu or in the app drawer? If you do, does it open the Superuser app for you?

If not, I would try flashing again.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] dowens9603:
performance settings

Just wondering what people have found to be the best results for this rom under performance settings or ktweaker.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] jarredp93:
It opens the app yes, however I get a message telling me the binary must be updated through recovery (even though my device is obviously not HTC). I tried to follow through with it earlier and it booted into TWRP and essentially did nothing. It couldnt locate a superuser.zip.

Everything is working fine as far as the rom goes. Superuser permissions are granted and such its just more of an annoyance.

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I'm currently using the Smooth Criminal profile and its going pretty well. I also have used Ktoonsified v4 on other roms and its also worked well. YMMV though
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] mb27:
Hmm, interesting. I can't recall if Superuser told me to update the binaries on this ROM, but if I remember correctly there are usually two methods of updating them - Normal and TWRP/Recovery. I've always used the Normal method when prompted without any issue.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] jarredp93:
I normally do the same, however the normal option isn't available, only recovery.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] iamjerry123:
Hey guys,

I noticed that some people have incredible battery life but for some reason I drain about 10%/hr. I was on hyperdrive before and it would average about 5%.

I flashed this ROM a day ago, so will this get better with time?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] dowens9603:
What is Smooth Criminal Profile? Is is a setting on a app or is it something someone posted with there settings and they called it that?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] mb27:
What's your screen on time? This is how I'm doing so far after my initial install last night.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] jarredp93:
If you look in the Ktweaker app, under profiles and scripts, you will find a 'shop' option of sorts where you can pick different profiles that the kernel will utilize.

Read here for more info before you do anything.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=44314911&postcount=7

Also, with my previous issue, a reflash fixed it.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] iamjerry123:
Only 40 minutes.

Side note: I'm not sure why but I think my phone has a hardware issue. If I put my brightness to about 10%-20% my screen flickers with the top half being dark and the bottom half being very light.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] locofocos:
I absolutely love this rom. Performance and batttery life are amazing. I'm getting like 5 hours of screen on time. The idle battery usage is a flat line sometimes.

Unfortunately I've just grown to love the Touchwiz calendar and AOSP browser (pretty much broken in 4.4) too much to stay. I was satisfied with using replacement apps, and using Xposed for nice features (Gravity Box, yes!!!), but now I realize Xposed doesn't work with ART runtime. ART runtime by itself is running great though!! I think everyone owes it to themselves to at least try it.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] harrytery:
Do you have any profiles or scripts installed from ktweaker?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] mb27:
Nope, just stock settings.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] iamjerry123:
Are there any battery saving tips you have for me?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] mb27:
I do turn off location and GPS when I don't use them. And I always use auto-brightness and a 30 second display timeout. That's really all I've got.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] drt054:
Just installed and got all of the Gravity Box settings set to my liking. Are there any settings I may be missing for the notification light? I have my phone on the charger now, but no light comes on. But when I turn the screen off there is only a red light, my battery is over 70% right now.

Edit:

Unless other options I missed, I just installed Light Flow Lite.. will see how that works out.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] iamjerry123:
Does anyone else have a problem sending a group SMS on WiFi?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] madsquabbles:
get greenify. yoy may need to get the donate version because you need to force google play services to sleep. you can either use titanium if you have the paid version and make google play services a user app or use the donate version of greenify and activate the experimental features in xposed.

i have no clue why google insists on draining our battery. after a while it just stops and then may start draining again.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] iamjerry123:
Doesn't that cause problems with receiving Gmail and all that?

BTW: Does your group SMS have problems sending/receving when you're on wifi?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] SCDroid:
When i try to open the gravityboxKK app it says system framework not responding. Any help? Also how do I get lockscreen widgets to work, it won't let me delete the stock one.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] egore93:
You have to activate in xposed. You will need to install xposed reboot then activate gravitybox in module then reboot again
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] SCDroid:
I see xposed installer now. Thanks!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] lagvoid:
Great rom! Probably the most responsive light weight rom I've used, especially coming from TW roms. However, I can't part (or find good enough replacements) with TW lock screen, TW camera, and TW notification shortcuts (little things like press and hold for wifi settings).
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] fafaffy:
I have to agree with this post a lot.

I can get by without the lock screen, and the notification toggles (as much as I'll miss the VERY handy brightness bar), however, the TW camera is just too important, and I refuse to live without.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] TheDude:
You should buy a professional camera if you are a photographer. Having said that, with SnapCam I get better pictures than ever on this rom. It is using sammys drivers so it should be an app limitation... Which the stock cam does suck... Use https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.marginz.snap&hl=en
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] fafaffy:
I'm not a photographer, so a camera wouldn't be a wise decision to me. However, I tried SnapCam before, but it's just not up to par with Touchwiz. I tried to use it, but - in my opinion - it's not as intuitive and easy to use with tw camera. Many times, the pictures taken with my tw camera was phenomenally better than that of SnapCam. I don't doubt that SnapCam has the ability to take better pictures, but me being an amateur and having a lack of interest of configuring the settings, I rather something that works well out of the box.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] lagvoid:
I was talking myself into sticking it through my other gripes, the TW camera was the deal breaker for me. I tried the dev's recommended camera app, but it didn't stabilize shots as well as TW camera's do. I'm surprised that Samsung has actually added value in the software department instead of just bloat!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Danvdh:
memory leaks and security flaws for a better camera app? seriously?

it's a phone people, just to remind you lol
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] egore93:
I hear you! I think I have taken maybe 12 pictures since its release. If I need a picture snapcam does the job just as well . Smooth and fast or camera. I'll go smooth and fast...

Great rom might I add.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] swieder711:
Another day of testing. Rom working perfectly in going from WiFi and Network extender to LTE and back. I can stream Pandora which has enough buffering that there isn't any pause when switching networks.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] TheDude:
I am so tired of hearing about how superior the sammy camera is... It is not. It is bull****. I have had better performance with snapcam than any other camera app out there. here is proof,

View attachment 2597357

See all the thc... or dirt? Whatever it is.. I never knew that was there until snapcam! It really does work!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Danvdh:
looks like we got it buddy

1 more day and you can officially call Google edition your daily driver :)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] harrytery:
Having an issue adding a custom tone to system > media > audio.

I'm able to add it but when I select that tone for my alarm, or any tone for that matter it just defaults to a high pitch alarm.

I wouldn't have a problem with it but I can't hear high decibels haha.

Anyone mind testing this out and seeing if you get the same thing? Any media file I add to the alarm folder and select as the alarm always ends up being the same when the alarm goes off
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Danvdh:
set the permission to rw/r/r and reboot

oh and to all those who doubted Canada in this year's men's ice hockey
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] AspenSTi:
Id have to guess the people just don't like the ui of the aosp style Camera. If you take a few pics then load up a tw rom the pics look just as good if you took them with the tw camera.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] brizey:
I've always suspected that Samsung cranks the view image on the camera (brightness, contrast, gamma, etc). I used to think the view image always had more pop than the actual photos, more than the expected loss from jpeg compression.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Sailrace:
I lost my LTE APN again yesterday. Not sure why or when it happened. I just happened to notice when i got the the rink for my ice hockey game, which has plenty of 4G/LTE coverage, that my phone was picking up 3G only. Used Airplane mode, switched the APN, and turned Airplane off, and it picked up LTE right away.

Since then, it appears that it has held. But we're still not quite perfect.

This is on the 2/21 build - just wanted to pass on the info.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Alxoom33:
I've had s similar experience over the weekend while driving.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] pkaczor:
Same here with the handoff, in my case from my home wifi to LTE. I had to manually reselect LTE-Verizon Internet after turning wifi off on the phone. When I checked the APNs (based on seeing signal but no LTE indication), nothing was checked in the APN list. FYI.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Divine_Madcat:
For good reason - one thing people may not realize.. while this is an AOSP ROM, it is not powered by the "hacked together" CM drivers - this rom has Samsung binaries, meaning things like the camera will perform the same.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] AspenSTi:
And on a side note, is there a mod to show signal dbm in the status bar? I quickly browsed though the xposed ones and didn't see anything.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] WishinItWas:
Its under the gravity box settings, via xposed.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] brizey:
On an airplane right now mid flight. Will get to test picking up lte in a new city.

update...lte in less than a second.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] ahoslc:
I am also on the latest builds and I also get hand off issues every now and again. Don't have the issue with other Rom's it's a lot better but still not perfect on hand offs.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] AspenSTi:
I think I've gone through most of them unless I'm not seeing it in there...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] spotmark:
Gravity Box>Statusbar tweaks>Data traffic monitor. Turn it on.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] AspenSTi:
Isn't that one only show dl an ul speeds?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] spotmark:
What is it your trying to monitor?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] madsquabbles:
yes, there's either a delay or you don't get them until you manually refresh. but you just have to keep in greenified until it stops doing it - un-greenify it after a few days and see if drain's back to normal.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] AspenSTi:
Just trying to see the signal in dbm on the fly rather than going into settings each time.

Was gonna start keeping track rom to rom to see if there is any difference.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] spotmark:
Ah, I see. Use Xblast, or is that the same setting as Gravity box?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] AspenSTi:
Not sure, will give it a go
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] spotmark:
Xblast>Status Bar>Icons>Mobile Signal Type. I think that's what you're looking for.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] dementio:
For some reason, I cannot get LTE to work at all. I can set Preferred network type to LTE/CDMA/EvDO, turn on Airplane mode, select LTE-Verizon Internet APN, turn off Airplane mode, and I'll get no data connection at all. I have to use CDMA/EvDO auto & EHRPD - Verizon Internet to have a data connection.

Is there something that needs to be restored or flashed?

It may not be an issue with this ROM, because I was using KitKang priot to this and LTE didn't work either.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Danvdh:
flash to stock and get LTE, getting working on your phone before you worry what ROM your on
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Shockz:
Try a stock Touchwiz ROM and see if the same thing happens there.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] AspenSTi:
I think that's what I'm looking for. It does change the bars, but it doesn't read properly or something, just stays on 0 and does not change. Oh well I found a widget that does the job.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] eazyc10:
Can't seem to get data on my network extender. I loaded the latest version that said it had addressed it. Anyone else have this problem?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] PaintDrinkingPete:
My own findings after running this ROM for about 10 days now...

1. For the most part, the recommended network settings work fine

2. I've gone in and out of coverage zones, switched back and forth from "3G" to LTE with no issues, as well as gone through plenty of reboots with the settings staying intact and connecting afterwards

3. Sometimes, however, it seems to just fail and revert back to the EHRPD APN with no warning. This seems to mainly happen after I've been in a location with VERY low to no signal. In all cases, I've been able to quickly switch back to the LTE APN once I'm in an area with coverage again (using the airplane mode trick).

An example of this was after riding on the DC Metro this past weekend...after leaving the station I noticed I was only getting 3G and that the APN had reverted.

Long story short, it works pretty well and I'm happy with this ROM, but yeah, this does seem to be a minor bug...at least I'm not losing data completely.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] egore93:
I also have the same problem. You will find also if you run any other asop rom you will not get data with the extender. Its a pain if you need to send a picture txt. I just use wifi.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Flypanam:
USB Audio

Every GE Rom I've tried doesn't support USB Audio Out, is this one any different?

Need it for my car set up. I'm running a Vanilla Stock 4.4.2 ROM and it does, but I'd rather run this one.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] GraffitiKnight:
I'm still having issues with root. Superuser app is installed but no apps can get root. Tried flashing superuser.zip in Clockwork Mod Touch recovery, and it still didn't work. Tried wiping, fixing permissions, etc.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] mb27:
Ah hah! I figured out the first question - and it's very easy. Open App Ops, scroll over to Device, select com.android.keyguard, and turn Vibrate off!

No more vibrations on the lockscreen!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] harrytery:
For starters..I didn't doubt Canada. I was not looking forward to playing them. They rolled to the Gold medal game with that game and team USA took that tough loss a little too far.

But back to something I won't lose sleep over :)

Still having issues changing tones. No matter what tone I add to the alarm media folder and rw and reboot it still gives me a high pitch alarm - it can be a buzzing alarm or a song that I test. Still get the same results.

Using root explorer to move them
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Danvdh:
are they .ogg format? this is very odd and I can't replicate.

I added CyanAlarm to the ROM and Cyanping and they work perfectly (I use them)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] harrytery:
One is a mp3 the other is .ogg but I just renamed it from mp3...I'm sure that's cheating haha

I'll try converting it to .ogg the correct way

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Changed the permissions of the file. Looks like its working now. Has some funky name when I create a new alarm though.

Regardless it works now.

Thanks dude!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] kprice1658:
Decided to start from scratch. Odin back to factory, set everything up and then flashed this latest rom last night and set it up. GPS, LTE was good. All was well all night.

Left this morning and checked phone when arriving at destination, saw 3G - and it had switched to the EHRPD apn. Re-selecting worked ok.

Wondering if there is a way to have a setup where there are no APN's - except ONLY Verizon-LTE Internet - if we would still have issues? Just curious what would happen if it couldn't decide to select EHRPD - if it didn't exist as a selection...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] pkaczor:
See post #976 http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=50482856&postcount=976
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] josephpalozzi:
No go for USB Audio out on my Fiio e17. Must be the ROM because it works with CM and Vanir (my other Daily Driver)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] egore93:
Mine switches from EHRPD to LTE. When I'm in EHRPD I still get 4g. Right now I'm on extender and its EHRPD and when I'm in a good 4g area it switch to LTE even though I have 4g with EHRPD.

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] tomf80:
The 2/21 ROM works great for data. Glad to see the improvement there.

The buzzing while audio plays seems to be even more frequent though. Is there anything I can do about this one?

Also, unrelated, is there a good third party "blocking mode" app, or should I just build it in Tasker?

Edit: I should mention, I switched to ART, not sure if that is relevant for the buzzing.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Flypanam:
Thanks for that. I ended up flashing and trying it out last night. No go for me as well.

Restored my back up of my Vanilla ROM. I don't know enough to know what it takes to enable that feature, if it has to be built it or if there is some command or mod that can be made like a gravity box module.

After playing with it though, it's the only thing keeping it from being my daily. It is very well done.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] guyver2077:
did a search but couldnt find it..

Is there a link/thread to the latest modem? and instructions on how to update the modem itself? MDK over here and i don't think ive ever updated modem. Changelog mentions only latest modem is supported
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] hlxanthus:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=46550751

You want only the modem.bin not the version with the non-hlos. Flash via custom recovery. Easy Pesy

Sent from my Galaxy S4
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] jds3118:
Reselect

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Brb going to test something
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] trmiv:
That's what I do. But I have to do that each reboot, or I don't have a data connection. Not a showstopper, just something to figure out.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] spotmark:
I'd do a fresh re-install, like someone suggested earlier. I ended up doing three installs, yesterday, because I kept screwing things up. :o
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] trmiv:
Yea just did. Same behavior.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] spotmark:
Wish I had something more to offer, but I'm at my wit's end.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] trmiv:
I was able to test the 4g/3g handoff and it appears to work OK. So really that issue with the data not coming back is the only thing I see right now. I haven't setup the rom yet