yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] Team Scream:
Let us know what you cook up brother... I am on S4's now too after 3 years on S3's and I will probably be here for a least a year into the S6 release to let that platform settle in and work out the kinks... With no battery removal and all, rooting may be a LOT more risky that it has ever been on our devices.....

Anyway, if you are sticking with a modded KitKat rom I will try it out when you are ready....

Thanks man,.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] bilgerryan:
Chainefire already rooted the S6 with CF Auto Root.

My ROMs: Wicked X & Wicked S5 Xperience
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] Team Scream:
Rooting is one thing... getting yourself out of soft brick hell is another thing altogether in my experience.... HAHAHA ! I am definitely NOT an early adopter when it comes to rooting $500.00 phones.... LOL ::p
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] bilgerryan:
Well this is what I've got so far

My ROMs: Wicked X & Wicked S5 Xperience
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] leaderbuilder:
Hey Ryan, great to see you over here!

Going to be leaving the S4 soon myself but have family and friends on it still and I"m sure they'll be using your stuff!

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For the firmware there are some particular things you have to do to get it to stay flashed.

1st is to power off completely - not use any type of 'rebooting' software. Then power on and enter download mode - power plust down volume then up volume to confirm.

From the OP in the firmware forum:

"NOTE: With MJA/MK2/NAE Firmware, some people report better success with turning Auto Reboot and F. Reset Time unchecked.

Do the same flash, but when you see PASS on Odin, unplug the phone and Hold the Power key for 10 seconds to reboot.

This applies to the NG2 too.

AND sometimes you may have to do this a couple of times.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] elrene101:
I am stuck on samsung logo ... any ideas????

I am coming from the google play 5.0 edition rom...

I re-downloaded the stock odexed rom just in case it was a bad download, but nothing... any ideas anything else I have to download?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] bilgerryan:
Wipe your internal SD
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] bilgerryan:
I posted my first theme, a port of BobCat theme from the Note 3-http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=3066562-tested on this ROM.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] carwashman:
That's looking great! Really good to see you around again Ryan! :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] gpshemi:
For the life of me I can't get this ROM / Modem combo to work. I think I've tried every possible combination now. It get's all glitchy and won't function. :confused:

Power down & back in to download mode

Odin Philz with reboot & F-reset unchecked.

Wipe cache, delvik, Full wipe for ROM install (System, cache, delvik).

Reboot to download mode using power button for 10s.

Odin NG2 Modem tarball with reboot & F-reset unchecked.

Wipe cache, delvik, Full wipe for ROM install (System, cache, delvik).

Reboot to recovery using power button for 10s.

Install [ROM] Stock Rooted Deodexed NG2 Refitted using Philz.

Software, Baseband, and Build Number all report being NG2.

When it boots the lock screen hangs, and the sound doesn't work. It's glitchy and hangs off and on.

If I return it to stock MF9 using the old one click, it's fine. Load the refitted ROM on with MF9, it works fine other than wifi and hotspot are broken. I also gave the Stock NG2 Modem a turn from another link. Again it gets glitchy and hangs in places.:crying:

I was tempted to go back to MF9 stock, let it ODTA update (will get knox), and then just root that.

Thoughts?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] bilgerryan:
You really need to be on a KitKat bootloader, but that will also keep you from Odining older firmwares. As in you need to Odin the full NG2 firmware.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] gpshemi:
I guess I don't understand what I'm missing then. I have no intentions of going back. I was content with 4.2, but my Fitbit required 4.3+. So I simple want the stock 4.3+ Android, rooted, and hotspot mod. Flashlight toggle would be great, but I can live without that one.

Where is the full NG2 firmware I'm missing? I don't see it in a link.

Sure do wish there was an all inclusive one-click for this one too. I've really read and read and struggled with this one off and on for months.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] miketucky350:
All you have to do is. Start with mf9 and install each modem in order all the way to ng2. Use kts 4.2.2 kernal while on mf9 then use the ng2 kernal after ROM flash. I'd you just go mf9-ng2 you will have problems and it will not work. Mf9-mja-mk2-nae-ng2 in that order. I know it sounds odd but it works.

Sent from my Nexus 6
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] gpshemi:
Augh...now I gotta go find all those modems...LOL. OK...I'll give that a try I guess.

Thanks.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] bilgerryan:
Here's the NG2 tar which will end up causing you far less problems in the end if you have no plans of going back. And probably easier than finding and flashing all those modems.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2861576
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] gpshemi:
I actually found all them them here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2338919

BUT...are you suggesting going straight to this NG2 tar instead of each modem? How does it differ from the NG2 tar that's listed at the start? I'm not planning on going back, but I guess I'd like to avoid knox if possible too. Just because.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] miketucky350:
Its all up to you on this one. Me personally I wanted to avoid Knox all together. You read about people having tons of issues. Its too bad Samsungs used to be the most open phones.

Sent from my Nexus 6
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] gpshemi:
So is that the difference then going modem to modem...I can avoid KNOX?

Those firmware / modems don't say if they're are de-knoxed. I assume they aren't.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] bilgerryan:
Modems do not contain knox. The bootloader does. I'm just saying I've seen loss of people brick trying to use ROMS without the firmware. Knox does not cause any problems other than a 0x1 on the Download Mode page after you install a custom recovery. Delete the Knox apps and you would never know it was there. As long as you don't try to downgrade firmware (this includes modem) you won't have any problems.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] gpshemi:
Well I ws thinking the firmware / modem combinations off that page. So that would include knox. Not worried about the trigger. We're out of warranty periods anyway. Was just trying to prevent the backwards incompatibility thing was all.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] MakeMoves:
Dial codes

Thanks for the stable, fast rom.

I wanted to remove the sprint proxies as am having some issues with service but the ##data# and other dial codes do absolutely nothing.

Was wondering if this is an issue with this rom, the s4 in general, or just something on my end. Has anyone else been able to get the dial codes to work?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] bilgerryan:
Works fine for me
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] MakeMoves:
wow, any idea why it wouldn't work? I also am not able to get into recovery when the phone is off, only when I use the 4 way reset menu. Not sure if thats all related somehow. I'm using phillz touch recovery, have tried flashing the radio and reinstalling rom several times and still have both issues. Wipe several times each time.

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BTW I am using Mostly Stock and before that I think the only rom I tried was negalites.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] bilgerryan:
Check md5sum of the ROM you downloaded against the download page to ensure you had a good download. I used v1.2. The only reason I can think of that it wouldn't work is if system/app/hiddenmenu.apk was somehow deleted. That's what the dialer codes pull from. Also make sure you're on NG2 firmware (Settings/More/About Device).
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] MakeMoves:
Thanks for the help!

Md5sum is the same and the hiddenmenu.apk is there. My Android version says 4.4.2. I did notice i still have the negalite svn folder in my storage, I never really figured out how the svn works but the folder is 3 gigs. I deleted it and will try to reinstall the rom.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] MakeMoves:
Wiped and reflashed again and still have both issues.

BTW every time i have flashed it says a special call is need to activate service and calls VERIZON not sprint, then asks to activate data. I skipped both and data/voice work fine.

Also, when trying to get to recovery via 2 button trick it tells me recovery is not seandroid enforcing and the knox is tripped. I have included my settings/about screen
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] fuzzybuffalo:
Philz Touch Recovery has not been supported since last June.

I used it on my S3 and loved it, but when I got my S4 and tried Philz I had nothing but trouble.

I suggest trying TWRP. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2262999
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] MakeMoves:
I will try, thanks!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] bilgerryan:
If you continue having problems with this I highly suggest you Odin the NG2 tar. I experienced the same thing as [MENTION=5973725]fuzzybuffalo[/MENTION], Philz worked great on the S3 and TWRP did not, the opposite is true here. TWRP works fantastically on this device. Thanks for the suggestion fuzzy.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] MakeMoves:
I flashed twrp, wiped all partitions, reflashed radio/kernel/rom and can boot in recovery now from the 2 button trick.

However still cannot get dial codes to work. I have been doing some research to fix the issue and noticed that my csc is xas is that what it's supposed to be?

Also does everyone get 'need to make a call to activate' every time after factory reset?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] bilgerryan:
I would Odin the NG2 tar. I'm not having any of those issues. By the way, it's the three button trick now [emoji6] (Home+Power+Vol Up).
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] MakeMoves:
I think I will, something is definitely screwy
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] fuzzybuffalo:
Nope, not getting those issues either.

From this thread, it's a dedicated 720T thread but there's a lot of good info there that should be relevant to the 720 also.

But he says "Use Galaxy Tools to change the sales code to XAS. This will unlock your APNs"

I was wondering if the 720 had to use the three button trick, I was having a real hard time getting it to work on the 720T and then I saw a post about the two button trick, and on the 720T all you need are Power and Vol Up for Recovery, or Power and Vol down for Download mode, works great if you hit the buttons right after it vibrates and release when you see the blue writing at the top of the screen.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] MakeMoves:
Dit the stock ng2 tar and everything worked fine including dial codes but when I flashed mostly stock 1.3 it still asked me to call to activate and dial codes no longer working.

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I just hold up and power, then just up only once it starts to power up. Holding on to power makes it power down again for me.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] fuzzybuffalo:
Yeah, me too. That's why I release both when I see the blue text.

Edit: I wonder why mostly stock is doing that? I have not flashed that one just the Stock Rooted Deodexed NG2 Refitted.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] bilgerryan:
I've only tried the Refitted (v1.2) as well. I suggest that and just debloat it yourself.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] fuzzybuffalo:
Well I'm either real curious or a flashaholic, just flashed mostly stock and booting now.

[MENTION=791908]MakeMoves[/MENTION] what codes were you trying?

Hmmmm... just said I needed to make a special call to activate my phone.. LOL

Hmmmmm.... ##DATA# not working either.. LOL
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] bilgerryan:
Mentioned ##DATA# earlier
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] bilgerryan:
I have loved the last week with this device. It does everything I wanted my S3 to and the quad core provides a pretty much lag free experience (extracting large folders and installing apps are the only times it happens but that happens on every device I've ever used including PCs). I usually mod the heck out of my device but I have kept it mostly stock and a few Xposed modules and it does everything I want it to. I'm slowly putting together a ROM but if they announce Lollipop I'm not going to bother releasing it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] fuzzybuffalo:
Yepper, I don't mess with this near as much as I did the S3.

I would love to use your ROM, but LP is what I've been waiting for.

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@ bilgerryan

If you were just now starting to learn how to dev ROMs, what would you learn first?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] bilgerryan:
Rest assured, I'll be working on something for Lollipop regardless. I just don't see much point in putting what I have into flashable form and testing if they announce LP.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] MakeMoves:
I knew I wasn't crazy!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] gpshemi:
Never could get this setup to work. Everytime I downloaded and installed the NG2 kernel / modem / ROM, it flipped out. Lost sounds and started glitching. So I reverted clear back to stock MF9, and let the phone do OTA updates. Now I'm on NG2 stock and working fine. However, I need root, hotspot mod, and de-bloat. Wondering if I should try and root and apply a hotspot mod myself, or try to flash the ROM again now that I'm clearly up to date and clean. I'm sure it'll trigger Knox either way, but at this point I don't really care either. I just don't want it screwed up to where I can't go back to where I'm at now.:confused:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] bilgerryan:
Odin could have done that to begin with, but yes you can always Odin the NG2 tar to get back to where you're at. Installing a custom recovery triggers Knox but unless you're planning on sending it to Samsung, who cares? Sprint replaced my Knox tripped S3, no questions asked.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] gpshemi:
It's out of warranty, and will never go back to Samsung or Sprint. I'm up for a replacement in 100 days anyway. So S6 is my next step I'm sure. I don't care about knox, I just know I can't get to where I'm at with the original stock MF9.exe I used. My understanding is you can't go backwards now.

I never really figured out why this did't work for me, so I'm hoping it's only as simple as Odin in the tar file like you say. I'm not so sure. LOL. I know it's not from a dirty flash though. That I was sure of.

Think I should flash this refitted over what I've got now? I'd have to Odin in a recovery first though...hmmm...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] bilgerryan:
Correct, you can't go backwards now. All Samsung Kit Kat ROMs require you to be on the KitKat firmware (bootloader) to load.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] gpshemi:
So can anyone confirm that the best thing to do here is odin philz and then flash refitted with that?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] koivth:
That should work just fine for you. I prefer twrp but philz should work just fine for you.

Odin the custom recovery of your choice. Make sure force reset and auto reboot are unchecked.

Once it passes, unplug your phone and manually reboot to recovery.

Do a full wipe, flash refitted, and wipe cache/dalvik before rebooting.

You should be good to go after that!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] gpshemi:
Thanks. Hope this works this time now that I'm up to date for sure with the factory OTA NG2 4.4.2!!!

Augh.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] gpshemi:
It works!! Tripped knox of course, but I don't care about that. Thanks for all the help everyone. Not sure on my issues before, but it's working now. Rooted, Hotspot, threw in Ti Backup and de-bloated it some too.

On Edit: Only thing not working is the auto-rotate feature. It's stuck for some reason. Tested gyro...that's working. pulled battery several times in different modes. Still no go. Just got the phone set up and working great, but might have to do a factory reset. sigh...always something.

2nd Edit: Factory Reset didn't work. I cleaned and wiped again, then re-installed ROM, and it's working again. This time I didn't de-bloat as much. Seems to be working fine now.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] Nerva:
I'm having a strange problem with Dropsync/Autosync/Onesync on my GS4 running this ROM -- I patched it to allow writing to the external SD card, but for some reason, even though the sync apps show the external SD card as writable, they don't show the emulated/0 folder as being writable, and the apps don't create their application directories as they normally should -- as a result, even though they can write to the SD card, they can't sync because they can't write to the device to keep track of what has been synced. I contacted the developer but he wasn't able to help me, besides identifying the problem is on the device side of things rather than a SD card issue.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] WhyteDem0n:
Do you have any plans to further this project into 5.1.X whenever it (finally) gets released for the Sprint S4?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] bilgerryan:
Considering the OP hadn't responded to anything in months, I doubt it. And it's 5.0.1 that we're getting... I don't know if we'll see 5.1.x.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] elguneid:
which one support arabic ??
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] battleof3:
Right, so I flashed the totally stock NG2 ROM (http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s4-sprint/development/rom-stock-ng2-odin-flashable-t2861576) via odin. I had TWRP beforehand, and I wiped system, data, cache and dalvik and then did a factory reset before flashing. It booted up, prompted me with the first time startup, then gave me a popup saying "device will reboot". It did this every time I booted up the phone. I decided I would try to flash this ROM (as was my initial intent anyways--I flashed the stock ROM to get on the right modem/kernel/what-have-you), so I flashed TWRP again via ODIN, transferred v1.3 of this ROM to my external SD card, and installed in TWRP, then did a factory reset, then rebooted. The same thing occurs. Could anyone help shed light on this bootloop?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] bilgerryan:
If you tried to downgrade from a newer version of Android that is most likely your problem. I suggest using a newer ROM.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] battleof3:
I had indeed come form a Lollipop ROM. However, I tried flashing a similar 4.4 ROM when all the software versions matched up and encountered the same sort of bootloop. My S4 may be dying hardware-wise, so I'm not too worried about this ROM now. But out of curiosity, do you have any idea what may have caused it?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] bilgerryan:
Nope sorry. Not without a logcat of the boot.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] MOCKBA80:
Could anyone please point in a direction of NG2 Stock Rom that could be flashed from custom bootloader and not with Odin?

Tried to flash this one but neither WiFi, nor cell radios are working. I am tried to downgrade from MK2 Stock(ish) ROM that was working fine, but I need earlier baseband to try to SIM unlock. Is it possible or am I out of luck and stuck with later baseband?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] bilgerryan:
ROMs don't include a baseband (modem), you would have to use Odin.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] lightiv:
Thanks, worked like a charm! I think I am done messing with my phone until the Samsung Galaxy 6 comes out. I just need to flash the tethering zip and I am done!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] Snazarian:
Any chance u can cook up a version for Odexed? That would make this rom perfect :good:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] kenny111008:
Can I/is it recommended or safe to flash the modem on PACs ROM or anyvother aosp?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] crevis24:
You should be able to, but you won't be able to update prl/profile. And you should always do that after flashing a modem. You could do a backup and then flash over to a tw rom, update it and then restore your backup.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] DJSmoove:
For Hotspot Mod check out this app. It worked with Galaxy S4 with NG2 One Click Hotspot MOD

Hey I got quick questions, I recently broke my phone last week and got a replacement from Asurion. It came stock with NG2 I want to put stock odex on it, What steps I need to do to install it? Do I need to flash the tarball?

Thank You,

Stephen
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] mxmr:
If it is stock NG2 then it already has the NG2 baseband (no need to flash the modem) and is already odexed. So you'd be flashing the same rom you have now.

If you want to root your phone odin cf-autoroot...if you want to flash stuff odin a custom recovery and reboot to that and flash away
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] Drumrocker:
Hey guys,

This ROM has been running great but I am running into a problem when trying to encrypt my device. After setting a password and selecting the option to encrypt, the device shows a screen with a little green android dude and then reboots but never completes the encryption step. Any ideas ?

Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] stryfe2010:
Delete
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] 1bklim:
This rom is running great for me. .. Just can't up date my prl. .. is this a known issue?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] guitardoc64:
I haven't had a problem with PRL updating. did you do the firmware last?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] ParkerParker:
It's been a year since I've been on tw and I have to say it's really nice ..Debloat+Xposed+lmt launcher = a huge win ..thanks for this !!!!!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] Jim M:
Installed this and firmware/modem, all went well. Flashed the modem first through odin. Rebooted and was able to update PRL and Profile, no wifi. Installed the updated odexed ROM, everything is working and running smoothly. Installed the Tools.apk mentioned earlier, Hotspot working.

[MENTION=4459407]mxmr[/MENTION] Thanks for the work on this.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] unomedmen1:
Anyone successfully running this on NAE modem and baseband? I want to try this ROM but am not close to my PC at the time.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] guitardoc64:
When I installed it I was at work and had to install the firmware to make WiFi and data work. So, probably not.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] unomedmen1:
Gotcha, thanks.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] onelovekir:
yeah same here, had to install NG2 modem to get wifi and data working.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] rtwrobert10:
disregard.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] onelovekir:
its all good man, you're fine
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] dbug2008:
Love this rom