yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] cruise350:
Actually, poor signal strength is the number one battery drain of a phone. That aside, my battery life is equal to or better on NAE than MK2. I can take my phone of the charger at 7:00am and when I put it back on the charger at 11:00pm it will still be at greater than 50%. Changing the modem as stated earlier is only patching a symptom of a bigger problem, like mismatched software and firmware. Or running a custom rom with mismatched firmware.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Yoshi1221:
Also it can be the 3G/4GLTE, When I am at work, I turn off the mobile data and turn on Wi-Fi, battery goes from 100%-76% in a 6 hour work day.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] chris-allen:
Im not saying that a modem in general drains or doesnt drain, what i AM saying is that once i flashed back to mk2, my batt problems INSTANTLY improved... this was also the case of another user on here... he to flashed back to mk2 modem and the batt drain stopped... it worked on my device and worked on his, if it was the cause of the batt drain? I have no idea..but i do know this.. it fixed mine, and fixed his.. will it solve everyones batt drain problem on nae? Probly not, but if it helps 1 or 2 folks then good, im glad my sugestion worked..... i have no idea why my device was going from 100% to 15% in under an hr. All i know is that after i mk2ed my shizz, everything is back to normal..... i even considerd maybe we had bad downloads exc....ill never know...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Darnell0216:
The update isn't a custom recovery zip for flashing. It's a system update. You have to unroot your phone and restore the stock recovery to install the update. Or you can just skip a few steps and install the official NAE rom from http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2663619 . It will not wipe your data, but it may wipe the internal SD card (not external).
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] JoeFCaputo113:
Hey guys to all you that have made the jump to 4.4.2 have any of you experienced the "camera battery drain bug"?! Started a thread here for anyone interested. Kinda makes me scared to go to 4.4.2! :eek:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Wiskid15:
I recently unrooted back to MDC and then rooted the stock rom. I'm attempting to get the Ota to update to NAE, but the ota will not show up. Does the root process disable the Ota functionality?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] arpitp:
If I'm not mistaken, rooting will prevent installing of an OTA update, but the phone should still get pushed the OTA update, and it will download the file. You just won't be able to install the downloaded file.

I was rooted, so I updated via Odin. Now I'm temporarily unrooted, until I figure out whether I want to re-root now and trip the Knox counter, or wait until there's a Knox-safe root method.

Not that I even know why I'm trying to preserver the Knox counter...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] urbanman2004:
I can confirm that NAE worked like a charm after flashing it from my SD card on an unrooted S4.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] cruise350:
Well, the OTA will never come for you since you are on the release date firmware and you must be on MK2 for the Kit Kat OTA to show up. Why don't you just download the full NAE tar file from Random45's thread in the development section. This way you will be updated to NAE in one easy odin install.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Wiskid15:
Thanks, everyone. I'll do that. As far as tripping KNOX goes, I thought I read in another thread that the Saferoot method doesn't trip KNOX. I also found this vid while searching for it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiZ7D2zjJdA

Thoughts?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] cruise350:
Saferoot does not work on Kit Kat NAE build, only working root method is cf autoroot our installing a custom recovery and rooting. Both methods trip knox.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Wiskid15:
Ouch. Okay, thanks. I'll await a Knox-proof method!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] daniel4653:
No matter what root method you come across that doesn't trip knox, once you want to flash a zip or custom ROM you will have to trip it by installing a custom recovery.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] cruise350:
Exactly!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Wiskid15:
Perhaps I've already tripped it, then. How can I verify that?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] chris-allen:
screw knox.. when i had too many scratches and dings from dropping my device, i simply called the insurance and told them i left the device on the table in a waffle house.... they charged me 100.00 deductable and sent me a brand new one....FYS!!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] daniel4653:
Boot into download mode. Of you have Knox flag 0x1 then you are tripped. If its 0x0 then you have not tripped it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Nudelz21:
TouchWiz issues?

Since I recieved 4.4.2 I have had issues with my home screen after unlocking the device.

I press the power button -> Swipe to unlock and then I cannot touch icons or widgets, can't even move to a different home screen. The notification bar still works as usual. The unusual thing is I can press the physical home button and everything starts working fine.

I have already tried clearing all the cache, resetting app defaults and resetting touchwiz normal as default.

Anyone else having this problem? Any ideas?

Thanks!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] daniel4653:
I actually started noticing this the past few days . it only happens on occasion or when I exit an app with the back button. It lags to bring up the launcher and after a brief second everything comes back.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Nudelz21:
I feel like it is a touchwiz issue. Going to install a different launcher temporarily to see if that is the issue.

Being that the notification bar works fine, it seems android is not to blame.

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Touchwiz may not be the issue. Installed Zeam launcher and while the unresponsiveness right after unlock is gone. pressing back to exit an app freezes the screen until you press home.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] daniel4653:
I already tried out other launchers like buzz, lightning, apex and nova. None gave me issues.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] chris-allen:
could be a bad flash... i would redownload the rom your trying to run...stock or custom....wipe wipe wipe wipe... then re-install... i almost bet this will be your cure
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Nudelz21:
Hmmm. Tried Buzz, Nova and Zeam. All work fine right after unlock but still getting the screen freeze when pressing back to exit. Goes home when I press home however.

I'll keep messing around with it. Will post back If I find anything out.

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I have not rooted this phone yet. No custom recovery either.

Only booted it into recovery once and it gave me 2 options. download and restart.

any links how to reflash a stock rom with stock recovery?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] daniel4653:
I wiped and odined mk2 tar then flashed the nae ota zip in stock recovery. This was over 2 weeks ago. To this day I still have not rooted.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] karikian:
Any news on wifi sharing with a rooted device? If so, what are you using?

Thanks a lot!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] VandyCWG:
Mean? Wifi Tethering? I downloaded a 1.95 app from the market that let's not NAF rom tether.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] l0udude:
Try Odining the NAE tar. Something may have went wrong with the OTA flash.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] chris-allen:
Nae....I must be missing something.. I have flashed it and on my device I see no improvement in anything at all... not saying nae isn't good, just saying on MY device I have seen no batt improvement, no signal improvement ( but I live in Atlanta and always had let everywhere ) no speed inprovement, nothing???? I just flash myself back to V6 StockIsh.. nice rom. Sacs is good too.. great theme on negalite with speed.....guess I'm ma be one of the ugly ducklings and stay mk2 for a while until nae has been stir fried into something a little more crisp..

Sent from m SPH720 using xda app-developers app
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] karikian:
Yes, I tried that but it won't work either...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] VandyCWG:
If your rooted, install this app,

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.snclab.wifitetherrouter

It works. At least, it has worked on the other 6 people I have helped this past week. And it works for me. I am NAF, 4.4.2, rooted.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] karikian:
And I am in NAE
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] VandyCWG:
With NAE, I believe they have a flash able zip floating around that enables mobile Hotspot.

Check the dev thread, I believe it's a leading topic.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] FanOfSkynyrd:
Haven't really been waiting for it as I am rooted in sacs 4.3 rom, but I finally got the update last night... crazy
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] negativzeroe:
I just want the root permission. I don't care about custom tons because they are rarely ever as stable as the stock. I rely on my phone for work so I don't need roms on this phone.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] troyboytn:
Totally agree with this....
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] troyboytn:
Just cleared Google services data, the update downloaded, attempted to install and failed. I am not rooted. No custom recovery, no custom rom. What do you guys think the problem might have been? The download was approximately 389 mb....is this the correct size?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] seezar:
Be careful with doing the "clear framework trick"

http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/1...to-never-clear-google-service-framework-data/

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Please let us know what the update filename is
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] neswii:
Exactly. I strongly suggest you wait it out. An extra day or two is nothing. We've waited for so long, what's 2 more days?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] mmark27:
Ha, ha, I was just going to post that exact thing.

http://www.talkandroid.com/185088-g...houldnt-clear-google-services-framework-data/
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] kiekan:
Guys, quit clearing Service Framework data on your phone. Its really bad.

Directly from a Google engineer: http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/com...ear_data_for_google_service_framework/cdiymrp

and

http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/1r1dz4/44_kitkat_has_started_rolling_out_on_the_n4/cdiwt6f
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] troyboytn:
I'm guessing that the problem may have been that it possibly downloaded a generic (international) version. It didn't specify Sprint or Kitkat or NAE build. All good though as it rebooted normally.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] 84guy:
No root sorry

Sent from my Sprint Galaxy S4
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] hawkyou72:
I cleared mine 1 time and will never do it again.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] amieldl143:
8069446ccb676c347a698e64b2df33882547f017.USER_L720_SPT_MK2_CSB_user_RP_to_NAE_CSB_user_RP_Update_FWD.zip

Got it
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] robogoflow:
I cleared mine over 10 times trying to pull the update. I'm rooted and on a custom ROM based on stock 4.3 update. Can I still pull it? Or am I wasting my time? I'm doing a full wipe anyway so I don't think framework issue affects me but my goal is to contribute to xda so these devs can get to work and strip Knox.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] z250kid:
Now what happens? Are you going to post the url so we can flash the stock version?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] thereverend999:
http://android.clients.google.com/p...CSB_user_RP_to_NAE_CSB_user_RP_Update_FWD.zip
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] kiekan:
You're wasting your time. Its actually doing more harm than it is benefiting anything. See: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=50298277&postcount=45
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] z250kid:
now what is the steps again to install this?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] alexnaoumi:
Is it safe to flash the zip?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] hawkyou72:
I hope so. I'm doing it right now. Will let you know.

:laugh:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] muniz_ri:
The file is legit. I took a look at the zip and confirmed Samsung omitted ART runtime from this update, bummer.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] mmark27:
If you are bone stock, yes.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] ChadH42:
I flashed this file without a problem.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] seezar:
NOTE: You must be stock non-rooted to do this.

Copy the file to the root of your SD card.

Then boot into recovery. When the phone is powered off, hold down vol+, home, and power and keep holding them down. The phone boots up and you'll see the galaxy s4 logo and in small text at the top it says booting into recovery. Then let go of the power button but keep holding down vol+ and home until you get to a recovery menu. Use the vol keys to scroll through the options and the power button to chose an option. You should see an option for update via SD card and then chose the zip file.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] dimm0k:
you two aren't alone, agreement from here as well. however with the shortcomings of 4.4 I'm in no rush...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] VandyCWG:
CF Auto Root worked on my L720T without an issue. That was with MK5 and NAF
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] chris-allen:
hell every since i.upgraded from 4.2, my device doesnt seem as " HD " as it did...the colors were brighter, text and pics were crisp and sharp..now everything seems dull....i dont know.. maybe just me
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] JoeFCaputo113:
Is it just me or is the settings "smear" back in 4.4.2??
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] daniel4653:
Only the lines from what I have noticed.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] mynameistory:
I am having this same problem. Very annoying to have glitchy notification sounds. All stock, never rooted. Can anyone comment on this?

So far, what I like about the update is fixed bluetooth metadata, the camera shortcut (even though the GS4 camera is slow to boot) and the music lockscreen.

Can't wait for some homebaked NAE roms with all the goodies and fixes!

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Also, still having problems from YouTube playing when I'm on my work WiFi. I have to either turn WiFi off or reboot the phone into the network to get videos to play.

One more thing: Swype has gotten extraordinarily slow.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] chris-allen:
Ready yet for android 5.0HD????? M&M?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] DykeStrike:
I made the horrid mistake of updating before i went around looking for feed back to this update. I'm having issues with 3g/4g, bad battery and drop calls. is there no way for me to go back to 4.3? I'm a bit confused cause,it looks like since i've already updated I have ''KNOX'' and there's no going back. Am I stuck waiting for an update from samsung? what are the options if there are any?

Thanks
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] fusiondynamics:
Anyone hear if they are gonna fix the SD card issue? Sucks not being able to use the external memory.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] JerryGNYC:
Got root? -

http://winaero.com/blog/unlock-external-sd-card-writing-for-all-apps-in-android-4-4-kitkat/
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Gazzuk:
i am ROOTED NOW! woohooo thanks!

on Sprint 4.4.2
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] cruise350:
It's not an issue, Google designed it that way in Kit Kat. They want to force you to use the cloud and are trying to force the manufacturers to remove sdcards from their phones. HTC has already done it, hopefully Samsung won't bend to their pressure.

With that said, if you are rooted, you can return functionality with a one line fix.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] JerryGNYC:
FWIW, the new(est) HTC One (M8) has a card slot, while the previous version does not... and also FWIW (from HTC's site/specs) -

"Expansion card slot supports microSD™ memory card for up to 128GB additional storage (card not included)"

Lack of the SD card slot on the first One is half of why I now have an S4, the other being the lack of user-changeable battery.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] daniel4653:
I still have a feeling that development will be small as HTC has been compared to the Galaxy series.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] JerryGNYC:
Sorry, but I'm really not sure what you mean here...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] daniel4653:
The new HTC is a great phone but to me the amount of development is never the same with the amount or Roms that are produced and Developers that pick up a HTC, compared to the Galaxy series. I'm saying there is more development with Roms with Samsung phones than HTC phones.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] JerryGNYC:
Ah... gotcha.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] utbigrod:
What method did you use to root NAE? I tried the latest CF Auto Root and Odin 3.07 via the QbKing77 method and it did not work for me. Went through all the steps fine and even "updated" the apps but no Super Su, no root...hmmmmm
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] daniel4653:
If you read you would have seen that you have to download the latest cf auto root from chainfires website.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] utbigrod:
Sorry, missed the difference from chainfire and QbKing. I will search and find that website.

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Hey, it's the same file. Both QbKing and Chainfire link to same page. So actually I did it right by the same method. So do you have any other thoughts that aren't condescending?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] dyandell:
Are you sure you are following the directions properly? I tend to odin back to stock, reroot and flash new roms about once a week. I feel like I get a cleaner flash if I come from stock instead of another rom. (I know it is dumb and a waste of time but its my way.) I always go to Chainfire's site and get the newest autoroot, then Philz touch to for his newest custom recovery. (I did hear there was some problems with one last week or so but not sure which, again, read his thread. Philz is awesome.) I also always use 3.07 on my PC to Odin both of these because I have not slowed down enough to get a copy of 3.09 without having to go through the website that seems a little sketchy to me. I then setup 3.07 on my laptop and with cf-autoroot so it can check whatever it checks. I turn my phone completely off. Let it settle shut down. Then I boot into download mode. Once in download mode, I plug in my USB cable. Once the "com" lights up I hit start. I have heard of people having problems here but so far, knock on wood, I have not. Once that finishes and everything settles on the autoroot after booting up, I will do the same with the custom recovery, i.e., setup up the pc, turn off the phone, boot into download mode, plug in cable, hit start. Shazaam!

If I just could not get it to work, I would go to cm.com and let them root the phone on their website and then flash a custom recovery and come back here to flash a rom.

Daniel is sometimes short but it is because it is frustrating to answer the same question over and over when the answer is very often two pages back, on the first page of the OP or can be found within seconds using google. Since I cannot speak for Daniel, in my personal experience, there is no reason for you to have these problems unless you are not following directions. Of course, everyone's phone does a little different so maybe you just got one that doesn't like CF, no matter how weird that would be. Good luck!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] utbigrod:
Thank you for the in depth response! I understand people not doing research and irritating others. I spent about 30 minutes on here exploring before posting and that was after my many attempts at doing it via the videos and original root link. I was posting because what others have said isn't resolving my issue.

After doing more research I found the issue was with the Super SU install. I downloaded it from google Play and ran it and now all is fine. For others out there having the same issue, trying downloading Chainfire's Super SU app from Play store on this may fix it for you.

thanks!

Brad
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Cooljb:
New version for 720T

There's a new version posted on opensource.samsung.com for the SPH-L720T:

http://opensource.samsung.com/reception/receptionSub.do?method=sub&sub=F&searchValue=sph-l720t

Version is NC6. Guess we'll start seeing it pushed out pretty soon...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] X31Korps:
I've changed the line that I have previously read about. However, I still can't alter anything. Let me explain, I can change anything I want, but as soon as I reboot my phone, it's back to square one and anything I moved to the card is gone.

Thoughts?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] JerryGNYC:
I'm on NC6 (rooted), and this worked for me - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nextapp.sdfix

The only change I had to make was in PowerAmp, as the path to the "new" external SD card is different from the original.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] cruise350:
You are not rooted, or are not fully rooted. Which root method did you use? Since you are editing a system file that reverts back to stock on a reboot you may need to root again.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] X31Korps:
Here's what's going on. I went to Samsung and they flashed the 4.4.2. I went home and rooted it, then learned of the SD issues with 4.4.2. And the SD has been worthless since. I just did as you recomended and rerooted using the http://true-android.blogspot.com/2014/02/root-l720vpufnae-sprint-galaxy-s4-sph.html method, Odin3 v3.09 and CF-Auto-Root-jfltespr-jfltespr-sphl720 that I found through that site. I've also updated SuperSU and used SD Fix. AND IT STILL DOESN'T WORK!!! Fustrating to say the least. I was hoping this was an easy fix, vise changing out the Rom or something. Ideas??

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Here's an update. So when the programs I used to automatically edit the "/system/etc/permissions/platform.xml" file I think they screwed up. It's supposed to make WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE ---> media_rw. Well there was still a line that read WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE media_r. And I think that over road the rw that followed it? BUT, that change isn't working either. This sucks.

What about the ACCESS_ALL_EXTERNAL_STORAGE? That as a sdcard_r as well. Should it only have the rw?

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Another update. Further research and I found the forum page http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2650706&page=24 .

If the following is how it is supposed to look:

<permission name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" >

<group gid="sdcard_r" />

<group gid="sdcard_rw" />

<group gid="media_rw" />

</permission>

Then I had this:

<permission name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" >

<group gid="sdcard_r" />

<group gid="sdcard_rw" />

<group gid="media_rw" />

<group gid="media_rw" /></permission>

Would that make a difference?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] daniel4653:
Folder mount in play store.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] JerryGNYC:
This worked great for me -

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nextapp.sdfix
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] X31Korps:
I've used that. It changes the file, but it's still not working.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] 2WhiteWolves:
If someone has already said this, sorry I missed it, have you tried https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.devasque.fmount

Folder Mount