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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] aeneas1:
that sounds like too much work, please don't do it on my account, altho offer and incredible support is very much appreciated just the same. here's the thing, i'm going to be apply your rom and modz to the ladies' (wife and daughter) devices as well and they're just not too big on some of this "dark" style that seems to be popular when it comes to custom roms and mods, the boot screens, icon mods, the skulls, blood, flames, the fire and brimstone meets v for vendetta sort of thing, what can i say? btw, out of curiosity, what is up with this anyway? at first i just assumed it was a kid thing and i'm an old fart, but i've discovered that a lot of folks into "romming" are getting up there in years as well! the forum screen names, the fonts and images used to announce new updates or roms, the (seemingly) popular boot, lock screen and icon styles, there's a definite theme goin' on and it 'ain't rainbows and puppies! thanks again ts.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] mrzhadow:
:D we are all old farts:thumbup: I will look around for a lady friendly theme for ya!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] williambs:
Thanks for helping!

Awesome, thanks for the great explanation!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] aeneas1:
having a lot of fun messing around with my phone thanks to ts's great rom, also found that a lot of great flash-free "mods" can be easily done via the play store, just installed the nova launcher and it's greased lightning, a lot like the google launcher but without the permanent google voice bar and it's a lot more tweakable! i will say that boot animations are kicking my arse tho, a real head scratcher for me...

i ended up using anbech's enable/disable flash that allowed me to install flashable bootanimation zip files (zip files that include meta-inf folders with a binary files(s) along with the parX image folder and desc.txt file). the things is, i still can't simply copy a bootanimation.zip file (with just the image files and desc file) to the /system/media or /data/local folders and be done with it, i have to flash the package that includes the binary. playing around with it i discovered that if i delete the zip file that i flashed, the boot image will be a stock "droid" animation that anbech included in his enable flash package. and if iuse anbech's disable package, ts's animated boot will return. but where does anbech's androd boot animation and ts's boot animation reside? they aren't bootanimation zip files as far as i can tell? are these animations hard-coded into binary files? also, the samsung *.qmg are still kicking around in my /system/media folder but aren't ever used - is this because of the change to the binary file (/system/bin/bootanimation)? also, how do you add music to bootanimation zip files that are flashed?

anyway i was able to load a marvel comics boot animation that's pretty cool, that fills the screen, and i plan on playing around with some more... unfortunately the s4 is a rather long boot and the marvel animation runs it's course well before the screen appears, which causes the desktop icons to appear before the lock screen loads, it's odd. but i've come across several how-to's so hopefully i'll be able to figure this out. would be nice if i could get a shut down animation goin' as well!

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btw the time that shows on my system backup files is different than my current (and phone) time, it's ahead by about 7 hours - i've searched but can't find how to change the system time, if there is such a setting, and assuming it's different than my phone time. btw i backup using cwm philz touch...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] The Sickness:
Just go here for all the fun stuff.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2769038
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] The Sickness:
I want to Thank my latest donator. THANK YOU.

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] aeneas1:
1. have played around with a couple of other roms that last couple of days, really liked the ge rom but no wfc, great to be able to return to this rom, and further tweak, i'm becoming a backup expert, fortunately not a lot of restores...

2. edited my first animated boot (bootanimation zip file with binary), it's the marvel comic montage, reduced the fps and added frames so it would extend the full length of the s4' boot time, ended far too soon before.

3. downloaded am using a power reboot/shutdown app, weird tho, no shutdown animation screen when it's used, just a black screen, but it's quick. i do get an shutdown animation screen when i use the power button tho.

4. btw i now have duplicate sets of icons in the notification bar, to the far left and to the far right, they include the bluetooth and battery icon. the icons to the far left are smaller, i'd like to get rid of the ones on the far left, is that possible? however of the three small icons on the far left there is a wi-fi calling icon i would like to keep - making it larger and moving it to the far right with other icons would be ideal. did i end up with duplicate icons by making selections during the aroma mod process?

5. gonna play around with the xposed framework for a bit now.

6. as i mentioned before the girls aren't crazy about the "sickness" title on the power shutdown menu, whatever, so i decided to extract the classes.dex file and take a look at it using jd-gui and, mama mia, i wasn't in kansas any more... man, you guys that mess around with that sort of stuff, that know how to mess around with that sort of stuff, my hat is way off to ya!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] mrzhadow:
Can you attach screenshots please?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Unclehappy:
I agree, its the XDA app. I do have a "Deviant" XDA app that doesnt FC........

I installed per instructions and app worked fine. Cleaned some thru TI and lost it(no backup?) Gone back to this post, downloaded the same, installed per instructions and it doesn't show up in apps drawer. Tried various routes but no love. Any suggestions?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] mrzhadow:
You must put it in system/priv-app and install there. It didn't work for me in system/app alone. Don't forget you have to set permissions to rw-r-r. also you will have to reboot.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] aeneas1:
am using nova launcher prime, which i downloaded/installed from the play store, and it's working beautifully except for the inability to drag widgets from the widget drawer to the desktop, when i try this i get the "unfortunately, settings has stopped" message, the same message that pops up when trying to apply wallpaper to the lock screen or home and lock screen via the s5 settings menu, which i've been told is a known issue. any thoughts on a workaround? as it stands, i can't use widgets. thanks!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] aeneas1:
update: as a test i switched default launcher to touch wiz launcher and then to s5 launcher, no problem moving widgets to desktop with either, switched back to nova launch and again could not move any widgets, annoying as hell.. is there a setting nova launcher that i've missed, that blocks widget movement?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] The Sickness:
I have Nova Prime....I can load widgets. Go back to S4 settings.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] aeneas1:
> are you using s5 settings?

> would i just flash the s4 setting from your latest mod package?

> kinda like the idea of returning to the s4 settings... even tho i like the s5 settings look and feel, i'm not crazy about the organization of the settings options, for example turning wi-fi calling on/off is takes some digging...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] mrzhadow:
S5 settings makes nova incompatible. You can definitely flash S4 settings through Aroma.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] aeneas1:
thanks mrz, flashed the s4 settings and widgets are fine... one thing tho, the ui doesn't seem as snappy, apps, including settings, seem to launch a tad slower after i made the switch from s5 settings to s4 setting, is this possible or id it in my head?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] mrzhadow:
You can use a CPU voltage app and PSU with the kernel options to make it faster. I use ktoonzes kernel and use his Ktweaker app to use different profiles he has made. He has battery saver profiles, media, gaming, data speed and others. I switch between FEED THE MACHINE, SUPER BATTERY SAVER 3.0 and SMOOTH CRIMINAL. My launcher is snappy in those 3 profiles
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] aeneas1:
is the "ktoonzes kernel" the "kt kernel" in ts's mod package?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] mrzhadow:
Affirmative.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] aeneas1:
and is this his tweaker?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dsht.kerneltweaker&hl=en
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] mrzhadow:
No. It should be included in his kernel.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] mrzhadow:
Would you mind sharing your APN settings please? They may work the same for v8 and we can help a lot of folks resolve their issues as well. Thank you
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] mrzhadow:
Here's my APN settings:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] wjs001:
Do you have a working configuration for Treve mod? I have tried to make it work many times but it always starts with errors and never works.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] mrzhadow:
Here you go.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] mrzhadow:
Here's the tethering APN which I don't use:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] ispot:
Is this a joke?

TreveMod doesn't work for anything above 4.2.2
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] mrzhadow:
If it doesn't work for you then try this http://code.google.com/p/android-wi...etail?name=wifi_tether_v3_4-experimental1.apk
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] ispot:
[MENTION=2437958]mrzhadow[/MENTION], I have all versions of trevemod including the experimental version you attached. All dont work for any build above 4.2.2

If you got it to work on 4.3 or 4.4, please share with us in details how.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] mrzhadow:
I just tested the apk on the link above on my S4 running on Insane KitKat its working very well. I had to start the app twice but it's tethering just fine.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] mrzhadow:
Here's what I did. I downloaded the experimental apk v3.4 I then installed it opened it and gave it permissions. Pushed menu and clicked on settings. Pushed menu again and reinstalled binaries and configs. It is very important that you reinstall binaries and configs!! I then checked Mack Address Spoof, enabled access control, checked keep connection alive, checked routing fix and checked disable wake-lock. I then restarted the app and clicked on the the tether icon or wifi signal and started with errors so i started it again and now I'm tethering. 89mbs so far! That's it! You should have a tethering s4 running on the sickness.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] ispot:
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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] mrzhadow:
I got the same error then restarted the app and its working fine now. Go back a couple of posts and try it the way I did it. Make sure you reinstall binaries. Here's a shoot of my laptop connected to my s4 using the experimental app without the T-Mobile pages.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] mrzhadow:
Be patient. Give it a try and if it doesn't work I'll pm you my number and I'll walk you through it.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] ispot:
even after starting it a few times and was able to connect my laptop to it, this is what I get on my laptop trying to access the internet.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] mrzhadow:
Ok great! Now you got it working. Now you need to switch your browser's user agent so you won't get that page anymore. Go here and follow instructions to switch your browser user agent http://www.howtogeek.com/113439/how...user-agent-without-installing-any-extensions/ or Google browser user agent extensions.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] vlad2277:
Hot background

How you set that up?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] ispot:
$ mrzhadow, on 4.2.2 I never needed to use any user agents on my browser. And on my rooted S3 running paid Wi-Fi Tether Router and VPN, tethering is working great without anything on the connected computer.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] mrzhadow:
It requires a little bit of patience because when you first flash it the Google play services apk force closes. For some strange reason Aroma doesn't seem to flash the apk during the process. I'll walk you through it but you'll need about 20 minutes to do it all. It's your call. I love this freaking theme though:)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] mrzhadow:
OK. I got an idea. Try using the s3 WiFi tether app and VPN on your s4. I'm assuming you have the apks somewhere in your phone.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] mrzhadow:
[MENTION=2161533]vlad2277[/MENTION] here's a sneak peak:D
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] mrzhadow:
Here you go http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2289140
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] mamdroid:
Good morning guys, if one has updated their bootloader can they restore the nandroid backup that they with the old bootloader or will it confict with the new bootloader the reason i ask is i have a few info apps that have the old info already saved to them in the back up. I hope this post makes sence lol thanks for your help
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] The Sickness:
Once you take the OTA or Odin the new bootloader, you can't downgrade. You will be 4.4.2. You cannot flash or restore anything lower.

Edit: I forgot last night about our PM. I will take care of that when I get off work

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] mamdroid:
Yes I remember reading about that a while back that I will not be able to revert back to anything lower than 4.4.2. I was on your TSE2 that is what the nandroid backup is. I made it right before I updated the bootloader about an hour ago. But i did not uninstall any of the info apps like device inspector it still has the old bootloader info save to it. I just dont know if that would cause a bootloop or brick the device? It is ok to restore the restore then??

lol Our pm slipped my mind as well lol. I am in no rush though and understand that you are a very busy man so when ever you can get around to it. I am having fun just digging through the files lol. Thanks again for all of the help dont what I do with out ya :cowboy:

you know what never mind I need to stop being lazy and do a fresh install of everything. Was trying to save myself a couple hours of work but I think a fresh install would be best anyway. but thanks again for your help greatly appreciated
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] aeneas1:
1. tried the kernel and i messed up my phone, it was unstable after installation, became unrooted, i tried to install su again and got a message that there was a problem with the binary file. tried to reboot, tried the kernel settings, couldn't get it to work.

2. decided to just restore my backup, booted into recovery, did a complete wipe / factory reset, selected my backup zip, and got a message the "md5 mismatch".

3. decided to start from scratch, cf-auto via odin, booted into download mode, got the m5 mismatch message again and a failed flash.

so where do i go from here? i can still boot into recovery and i can still boot into download mode. any help would be greatly appreciated0
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] The Sickness:
You flashed the wrong version. Just Odin back to stock and start over

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] aeneas1:
thanks for such a quick response ts, very much appreciated! is this what i should be flashing with odin?

http://samsung-updates.com/device/?id=SGH-M919&details=Galaxy_S_4_T-MOBILE
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] The Sickness:
What bootloader are u on right now?

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] aeneas1:
not sure? i can't boot into an os, it hangs on the "samsung galaxy s4" screen with the blue led blinking away. when i purchased the phone it came with 4.3 (and knox) loaded.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] The Sickness:
So, you didn't do any OTA's?

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] aeneas1:
no.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] The Sickness:
Then Odin 4.3

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] aeneas1:
thanks, downloading now, slow connection this morning, gonna be about a 1.5 hours for 1.5gb file...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] aeneas1:
well that's great, at the end of the 1.5 hour download i got a "download fail" message, and that's after i paid $12 to register to get "rocket-fast" download speed (rapidgator)! any idea where i might be able to find a different source for this file? i installed kies thinking i could download it directly from samsung but kies can't recogniz my device in its current state, even tho it's in download mode...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] The Sickness:
Sammobile.com

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] aeneas1:
ok, just realized that i did ota to 4.3, my phone was originally 4.22 (m919uvuamdl) when i purchased it, without knox... i realized this because i happened to have another one at the office that i never put into service, it's brand new and has never been, i purchased 4 for my family and i never used mine, and it's the same baseband as the one i rooted / messed up... so can i use this phone to make a backup and flash it somehow?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] The Sickness:
I'm not sure on what your asking me

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] aeneas1:
was getting tired of waiting for the firmware to download and thought that there might be some way to backup a new working phone with the same baseboard, anew s4 identical to the one i rooted, and use that backup to flash (odin) the rooted phone... but the firmware download is almost finished so 'll just use the download....also ts, powering on my new unrooted s4 i noticed that the boot time to the lock screen is considerably less than what i was getting with the rooted phone, is that typical, or should the rooted phone boot just as quickly?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] The Sickness:
Boot time is rom dependent. Even though a build.prop edit can make it faster

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] aeneas1:
gotcha... so i tried to odin the firmware file and it failed, should i be selecting the pda button or the bootlaoder button? i selected the pda button.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] The Sickness:
PDA. Did it say it was checking MD5?

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] aeneas1:
to be clear, i downloaded and flashed 4.2.2 mdl which is what my phone came with although i did ota to 4.3... here are the odin results:

<OSM> Enter CS for MD5..

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

<OSM> Please wait....

<OSM> M919UVUAMDL_M919TMBAMDL_M919UVUAMDL_HOME.tar.md5 is valid

<OSM> Checking MD5 Finished Successfully

<OSM> Leave CS..

<ID:0/005> Added!

<ID:0/005> Odin v.3 engine (ID:5)...

<ID:0/005> File Analysis

<ID:0/005> SetupConnection

<ID:0/005> Initianalization

<ID:0/005> GET PIT for mapping..

<ID:0/005> Firmware update start..

<ID:0/005> SingleDownload...

<ID:0/005> sbl2.mbn

<ID:0/005> NAND Write Start!!

<ID:0/005> sbl3.mbn

<ID:0/005> rpm.mbn

<ID:0/005> aboot.mbn

<ID:0/005> FAIL! (Auth)

<ID:0/005>

<ID:0/005> Complete(Write) operation failed

<OSM>> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] The Sickness:
You must use 4.3.

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] mrzhadow:
Wouldn't flashing the correct kernel fix his problem? I didn't think he would miss the correct one. Its highlighted in blue letters. Touchwiz KitKat 4.4 VERSION. I apologize for the confusion!!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] mrzhadow:
[MENTION=5609827]aeneas1[/MENTION] My apologies!! I should've just uploaded it to my mediafire or 4shared and just given you the link with the 4.4 kernel. Its in the link I gave you. I believe it is the 3rd or 4th download link. Again my apologies!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] The Sickness:
On top of that, there are 5 kernels in The Sickness Modz.....

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] aeneas1:
when sickness said i flashed the wrong tar he was referring to my post where i wrote i tried to flash the "CF-Auto-Root" again in an effort to start from scratch after i got stuck, he said i needed to flash the stock firmware again instead. as far as the "ktoonzes" kernel you recommended, i had no problem finding the right one, i did not flash the wrong one, it just didn't work for some reason, complained about binary mismatches and bumped e out of root. i used sickness'' modz v4 (aroma) to flash it the first time around, and when that caused problems i used the link you provided and flashed the "KT-SGS4-KK4.4-TW-TMO-06.19.2014.zip" file which gave me the same results.

in fact i tried flashing from both sources a couple of times, and each time they didn't work i just restored my latest backup, which was easy to do. but when i decided to finally give up and restore my backup once again, i decided to first do a factory reset / wipe before restoring, and this seemed to mess me up. before i would just reboot and restore my backup when the kt didn't work, without doing a reset. btw. per the kernel instructions, i did wipe the cache and delvik after i flashed the kernel, but i couldn't find the option to fix permissions as well per the instructions using philz cwm - could that have caused the problems? or does philz cwm automatically fix permissions?

so odin 4.3 regardless if my phone was 4.2.2 before i ota'd to 4.3, will do.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] The Sickness:
Seems the problem is your recovery......I dont use Philz so I cant tell you where to go to click on "old binary". I use TWRP. Its used to test my roms as well as my mod package.

Try switching to TWRP first. If you still have problems, then yes, You will Odin to 4.3. That is its current firmware.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] mrzhadow:
I agree with The Sickness. I ran Philz recovery for a while too and was unable to switch recoveries or do simple things like flash certain files. TWRP has been absolutely the best recovery I have ever used and I've been around since the 1st android came out. The T-Mobile G1.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] The Sickness:
The Sickness Modz V5 is live...

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2769038
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] aeneas1:
ok gents, ts & mrz, the 4.3 stock flashed fine and i'm back to square 1 (not really tho since i have backups that are 90% setup, ready to flash, and because (altho it may not seem like it!), i'm a bit more experienced at this now... so should i go ahead and flash the "cf-auto root" and then flash a backup zip, or should i use something else to root the phone using twrp? btw i'm assuming i can still use my backups made with cwm if i switch to twrp? while i wait to hear back i'll go and check out ts's new modz, and thanks a ton guys for all of your time and support....

fyi i'm doing this for my 15-year old daughter, she loves her phone but hated all of the t-mobile / samsung bloatware, she thought it made her phone slow compared to her friends phones, so i told her i root it for her, should only take a few hours or so, ha ha! anyway, tomorrow night she's leaving for two weeks with mom, they're going to visit my in-laws, and i've been trying to get her phone ready by then!

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quick question: once i flash my latest backup (the backup i made right before flashing the kt kernel), will i have to reflash the modem as well or will it still be part of the backup?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] The Sickness:
Gotta re flash modem. Your modem doesn't change from rom to rom
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] mrzhadow:
He can stay on 4.3 and flash your rom, can't he? Or he can flash the nb4 modem and flash the rom.