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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] spearoid:
After 6 years of flashing ROMs to WinMo phones and then Android.....thousands of flashes...I got my first hard brick on my S4....while I was in China no less :mad:

Was pretty impressed actually.....I've used mostly Samsung phones and they have been generally unbrickable. My phone was 0F1....I flashed the 0C1 kernel to root it before installing your ROM...and everything worked fine....I tried dirty flashing your ROM over top of itself because I REALLY want that flashlight toggle :p and in the middle of the flash the phone turned off and never came back....no LED, nothing....shows that mysterious listing in Device Manager...textbook hard brick....and apparently OF1 can't be brought back to life with the SD boot trick.

SOOoooo....my question. :) I got my phone replaced for free by Verizon....and just got back to the States....and want to put your ROM on my phone again!

Do we know any particular combination of events that will cause the hard brick with OF1 and flashfire? I found a few others that had hard-bricked their phones in almost the exact same way when googling the topic.

Last time, I never did flash my phone back to the OF1 kernel....I left it on OC1...not sure if that was the problem when trying to flash a second time....obviously I'm a little scared of doing this again.

I'm going to flash your ROM now exactly as I did the first time on my last phone....but I'd like to know if you think I should flash the OF1 kernel back to my phone after installing your ROM and of course if you have info on how the bricking happens in a case like mine, I'm all ears!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] mminford:
Noob here...

When using flash fire, do you put the zips in order from bottom to top?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] jwhistler:
Order them from top to bottom

#1

#2

#3...etc.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] mminford:
Thanks. I was just confused that when I added each function the wipe function stayed at the bottom. I appreciate the help.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] schultz915:
Yes. When I have gsm/LTE turned on and have selected AT&T as the network it fails to send a text every time. When I have just gsm on and no LTE it works. Anynideas?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] jwhistler:
I know just enough about this stuff to really get myself in trouble, but for people like me, your experience is one of those teachable moments! Since this is an OC1 rom build, do you really want to flash an OF1 kernel on to it? I was under the impression these are not backward compatible?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] spearoid:
No, I don't "really want" to flash an 0F1 kernel. I really want to not have a hard-bricked phone. :svetius:

and on that note, I hard bricked my new one immediately this time around.

followed the exact same steps as I did two weeks ago when I had success.

Not sure what the heck is up with that....not going to push my luck with warranty replacement this time...shipping to ebay debrick reapairman

the only thing I can figure at this point is maybe something screwy with my SD card where these files are flashing from?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] jwhistler:
Lag following Stang5liter_Flashable_SystemUI.zip

I wanted to remove the 3minit battery mod because I find the icons kind of annoying and I like as close to stock look as much as possible.

So I flashed the Stang5liter_Flashable_SystemUI.zip. wiping System data and Dalvik, but not 3rd party apps. Flash did fine, but after booting up was having numerous errors with Google Services, so decided to start over and do a clean install of everything. Got a clean system running, then flashed the System)UI.zip, then installed Xposed and Wanam. Everything is running great except for some newly introduced lag and stutter. It's not horrible, but its noticeable and more than experienced on stock VZW Lollipop.

I'm thinking I might just live with it until Stang's V3 comes out for testing, at which point I'll have to decide how badly I want the few little tweaks I get from Xposed...mainly turning off the boot sound, and placing a screen capture button on the Power Off screen.

I've read numerous posts of Xposed causing lag for various reasons, the biggest being the data cache for SHealth, which we don't have in Stang's nice, clean ROM :) Is it the System_UI.zip that is creating the lag? Is it Wanam/Xposed? Some combination? Before attempting to remove the 3minit battery mod the phone ran great with Wanam/Xposed, so perhaps on the V3 release I'll just live with the battery mod?

Just posting this in the event that someone else might have had a similar experience?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] klabit87:
You can remove the boot sound file yourself if you want. Which I don't think you will on v3 ;)

And we can add the screenshot option manually.

I will go ahead and have it ready for when v3 drops and will make sure it is tested.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Robbynson:
Hello , add Russian language please in your build at the moment, I think your work is the best solution for of1 i545 thank you for your work. Hello from Russia.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] schultz915:
I'm having trouble finding answers. Can Xposed framework be installed with your ROM? If so can it be installed using FlashFire? Is there a thread somewhere explainging how to do this with FlashFire? Sorry I'm a noob at this.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] stang5litre:
Yes xposed can be installed using flash fire. See non official xposed. I also have the links to xposed in the thread. Just use the search and it should find it.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] XxD34THxX:
Get the Language Enabler app by Wanam from the play store.

Give it root

Find your language

set as default

done
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Robbynson:
But I know that it interests me full localisation including the settings
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] bast525:
Stang5litre, I found your post with the xposed apk and the framework files. The drop box link for the apk works but the one for the framework files says it has been removed.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] stang5litre:
Zip

https://www.dropbox.com/s/5gnk5paff1u0a3v/xposed-v65-sdk21-arm-arter97-V5-krait.zip?dl=0

Apk

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ru508gr484c8w3g/XposedInstaller_3.0_alpha4.apk?dl=0

You have to put the @ in front of my name and it will ping it to me.

Enjoy [emoji13]
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] bast525:
[MENTION=4840281]stang5litre[/MENTION] thank you much sir. I tried flashing some other firmware package that was suppose to work for touchwiz and 5.0 and the phone wouldn't boot... Without safestrap I had no easy way to recover and had to odin back to stock then root and then flash this rom... Pain in the ass. I bought the phone used for my wife and it already had OF1. Makes me happier that I'm still on 4.3 on my own s4
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] stang5litre:
The way you install it is install the apk 1st, the flash the zip and after it boots get a module and activate it. Be aware since your wife's base is of1 so she is stuck with FF(likes to put wipe at the end ,press sand hold and drag to the top). Or you have to actually lol. My s4 is MDK so I don't have to deal with that either. We're you able to get it installed? Just want to make sure you got it. [emoji1]
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] spearoid:
So I have another GS4 I just put your ROM on....4.4.2 NK1.......and it is running great. Following your install instructions involves installing the OC1 firmware. If I wanted to sell this phone and revert back to stock, should I use the NK1 .tar file I have or will I need to get the OC1 file to ODIN back to a factory image?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Neffy27:
I would odin whatever your bootloader is.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] spearoid:
yeah I guess that's asking the same question another way. I don't know what bootloader I have now that I've installed this ROM. I am not totally sure what the distinctions between firmware, baseband, and bootloader are.

I know I was able to put Safestrap on my NK1 phone and I installed strangelite's ROM from Safestrap. I am not sure if installing his ROM, by necessity, changes the bootloader to OC1, where Safestrap is no longer possible. I hope that's not the case, and would assume it's not.

But with my recent bricking issues, I'm terrified of the idea of restoring the NK1 firmware if the bootloader has been changed to OC1, as I'd fully expect that to hard brick yet another phone. :mad:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] sob372:
Na you're good homey. Roms don't change the bootloader. There's an app in the playstore that'll check it for you idk the name, I've never needed to use it, but its "Samsung something"..........yea

But yea you're good go ahead and flash that nk1 tar file whenever you want to bring it back to factory and you're golden
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] spearoid:
Word up....I didn't think the bootloader would be changed....pretty sure you can only do that in ODIN or something similar....it was the "flash OC1 firmware" step when installing this ROM that contributed to my newfound super gun-shy-ness ;)

To my shame, I once DID change the bootloader on a Galaxy S4....it had the MDK bootloader...and I knew the value of the MDK bootloader and got ahold of the phone for that very reason....yet, I wasn't as attentive as I should've been when restoring the phone with ODIN, and I freaking restored a newer LOCKED bootloader to that phone. Wasn't happy at all about that!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Neffy27:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...o+app&pcampaignid=APPU_1_lMZ3VrbhLMv6aemKp-AP
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] seyf63:
Hello, it is thé Best i545 rom I tried thanks for your work. But lte is not working, I tried my sim on my Gs3 lte it's working with the same apn settings. I tired "advances signal status" and changed to GSM/LTE (auto prl) and it is still not working, any help?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] jfalls63:
Perfect

Just did the OF1 install and worked without a hitch. Great job!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] stang5litre:
Sounds like something didn't take. Should be set to global and get 4g. Have you tried re flashing? Everyone else has 4g. You are on Verizon correct?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] marinegundoctor:
In case anyone else is struggling to get Viper4Andriod working on NON-MDK, I used the flashable file from http://androiding.how/how-to-fix-viper4android-selinux-policy-issues-on-lollipop/ in Flashfire. Just uninstall any failed V4A driver first. I left the V4A app itself installed, only using the "uninstall driver" option from the menu.

After FF does its thing and reboots, install the driver and reboot the phone.

Use the "Check driver status" option in the V4A menu to see if the driver status is normal and enabled. Processing will say "no" unless you have audio playing.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] stang5litre:
Good find!!!!! Should help those that have that issue. [emoji3] [emoji106]
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] steepdgaf:
Just tried it and worked for me when nothing else did, thanks for the find and share...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] seyf63:
Thanks for your answer, I'm using this phone in France I don't have a Verizon sim, then changing the csc did't changed anything. Maybe with service mod I can activate it?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] stang5litre:
Ya csc isn't going to do anything. Do they have Sims over there?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] seyf63:
Are you talking about the game sims or the sim card?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] stang5litre:
Wth. Lol Sim card.... the 4glte card that slips in the back of the phone.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] seyf63:
Oh yeah of course there are sims in France like in nearly every country (?) Why?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] stang5litre:
Because your 4g comes from it......that and you might have to change 4g library as well
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] schultz915:
I am using this phone and this rom on AT&T. Everything works fine except I cannot SEND sms while on LTE. If I switch to GSM only it will work but it makes my battery drain substantially faster which I want to avoid. Anyone have any idea why it won't send sms while on LTE and do you know of a way to resolve this?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] klabit87:
nevermind scratch that. you still need att apn in order for the sms and mms to work properly.

---------- Post added at 11:22 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:59 PM ----------

On another note.....

V3 is looking great!!!

Hopefully the last wrinkle will be ironed out very soon.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] AliceBToklas:
A New Years present perhaps?

Really looking forward to it.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] jwhistler:
Nice!! A VERY Merry Christmas!:)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] schultz915:
I have it set to AT&T APN.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] bast525:
[MENTION=4840281]stang5litre[/MENTION] hey man sorry for the very delayed response. I was waiting for a good time to try this where I'd have plenty of time to fix it if it ended up not booting. No such problem this time though, using the xposed apk and framework you provided. It was a tense few minutes at the Samsung splash screen though!

Is Wanam useable with this rom? It just occured to me that a lot of modules may not even work with lolipop...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] AliceBToklas:
Wanam does work. Not sure everything but all I've tried.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] stang5litre:
Wanam works great [emoji41] [emoji48]

You can't set the apn it's a file that is replaced in the zip of the rom. I was trying to help you yesterday but didn't seem like you we're trying the advice given. By the way this is my rom. [emoji6]
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] schultz915:
I know it's your ROM. Hence the name lol. Like I said everything works fine excepting SENDING sms. I can receive sms and send and receive mms all day but it fails everything time when I try to send sms.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] stang5litre:
If you know this, have you tried what was told to you? Or just post again? [MENTION=4168602]klabit87[/MENTION] telling you to do the same thing. Otherwise this is a Verizon rom and you need to go to the at&t thread thanks.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] schultz915:
Well all klabit said was I need to have an AT&T apn. I responded that I am using g am AT&T apn. I posted here because I'm using this model of phone and figured that you guys might know more about THIS model of phone over the AT&T guys since they have a different model of this phone. If you don't know the answer to my question you could simply say that you don't know instead of being a ****. Merry Christmas
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] stang5litre:
[MENTION=7124066]schultz915[/MENTION] Don't post in my thread again. You don't listen. I am very nice. L8r. And i will Have a Merry Christmas along with everyone else in this thread. I Gave you advice to fix over and over. You can't make someone do what was suggested as i have helped others using my rom on T-mobile.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] schultz915:
How have you tried helping me other than telling me to listen to someone else who's method I did try or go to a different thread.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] seyf63:
You mean I have to install a library? I read something about flashing i9505 bootloader and modem do you thin it will work? And where can I find lte library? (My sim is 4g already, apn is correct but I have Hspa+ only )
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] klabit87:
In the past using the sms/mms apk files from an att rom had fixed those issues.

Also the apn I am referring to cannot be set in the rom settings.

I was referring to the apn config.xml file but I believe the the att apk will fix your issue.

Do not ever flash a bootloader/modem from any other device.

You will have a shiny paperweight.

Which device model do you have?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] stang5litre:
1st time i tried to help you I told you that you would need the 4glibs from a at&t rom. But you didn't do that or ask where they were before you got ill. As you asked on the next post. But if you can have a civil convo I would be glad to help. Libril-so is one of the 4g lib names and in the car atm and can't think of the other right off top of my head.

It's two libs that will come from a at&t Rom so go ahead and download one with the same base or close so you can grab them. Plus you will need the apks mentioned. Sms,mms. As [MENTION=4168602]klabit87[/MENTION] was explaining the apn is a configuration file. Grab that as well just in case. Don't flash any of those especially boatloader.

Sent from my stang5litre Edition 5.0 v3 using Taptalk
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] stang5litre:
I just want to say thanks to [MENTION=923099]Zakary[/MENTION] for your donation! !!! It's greatly appreciated. I hope you and our family have a Merry Christmas!!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] stang5litre:
[MENTION=2238089]AliceBToklas[/MENTION] perhaps ??
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] schultz915:
I'm sorry for getting irritable with you. I did not see you're response about the 4G library file. I've just been really frustrated trying to get my phone to work correctly that I lost my temper a little. It was unnecessary, especially on Christmas Eve.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] seyf63:
Thanks a lot for the help guys and Merry Christmas !

I find out the 2 library that I need : libsec-ril.so and libril.so that must be in ./system/libs right?

I find this : https://github.com/AntaresOne/propr....1-custom/jf-common/proprietary/blobs/gsm/lib (repos of this http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2635758) do you think that if I copy paste libs it will work?

Edit : find out a zip to flash with ril libs #post63169748 but my phone is OF1 and the zip is OC4 libs will it work?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] stang5litre:
Send me the libs and I'll make a flashable for you ;)

You enter the OF1 ones.

All water under the bridge :)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] stang5litre:
Merry christmas everyone !!!!!!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] bkkzak:
Hey no problem man. Hope you got my message that was on as a note in Paypal as well
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] marinegundoctor:
Merry Christmas everyone and thanks [MENTION=4840281]stang5litre[/MENTION] for the ROM and help!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] stang5litre:
Yes I did. [emoji39] . Thanks so much!!!, good felling knowing all the time i spent doing this stuff is appreciated. Thank you so much [emoji2]
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] bkkzak:
Ya no problem man! You are much appreciated! You do soo much, we're lucky to have you on our Verizon sub-forum!!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] schultz915:
Merry Christmas. Not sure if you saw my apology yesterday. Where should I begin with this? I can find AT&T ROMS and firmware all day online but I'm not sure how to tell which one to use.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] AliceBToklas:
I hope you & your family are off to a great Christmas. Ours has started out well, just waiting for family to join.

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] klabit87:
No worries man.

It would be best to find one that is as close to stock as it can be.

I'm not sure if att has any stock deodex rom but that would be the best start.

Once you grab the rom we could start picking the files you may need.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] schultz915:
I have a couple different AT&T stock 5.0.1 ROMS I downloaded last night. One of them is deodexed. How would I go about picking apart that the files to find the ones I need and then how would I need to package them to flash them to my phone?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] klabit87:
There should be some apk that is sms and mms.

I don't recall the name but I can look later.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] schultz915:
If I unzip the ROM on windows will I be able to browse all the files?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] klabit87:
Yes you can.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] schultz915:
Ok. I'll let you know what I come up with.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] schultz915:
I can't figure out how to look through the files of the ROM. I unzipped the ROM but there appears to be no .apk files anywhere.

nevermind. I figured out how to extract the system image file to access everything.

Now I just need to know what files I need to find and what I should do with them.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] spearoid:
Merry Christmas everyone!

So I will admit that I might just have a brain tumor, but I have now installed this ROM successfully on 3 different Galaxy S4s....one on NK1 with Safestrap, and two on OF1 with Flashfire.

And in none of these cases, have I been able to get the torch to appear as an option in the pulldown toggles. I add TorchLight; to the end of the list with SQlite editor and no dice. I can add the Toolbox and it see it appear in the list. I added the WiFiHotspot and it appeared a second time (didn't realize it was already enabled :) ) So I'm adding the text to the right entry in the database, at least it would seem. I've added toggles with SQlite on many Galaxy phones in the past and can even add toggles on this phone, except for the torch.

What on earth could there be left to prevent this from appearing? It was the first thing I did after installing the ROM this time....I am using the non-MDK v2 install. Those of you who have gotten the torch to appear in the toggles, are you using the non-MDK v2 version?

This ROM is freaking amazing......this is literally the only desire I have remaining for the ROM.

Maybe there's something obvious I'm missing here? Maybe those who have had success aren't using the non-MDK v2 version of this ROM?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] stang5litre:
Don't worry my friend v3 has it in it. But you can also good to that same spot and search for tochlight and change the value from 0 to 1 and see if that makes a difference for you. Won't be much longer . A lot more features coming [emoji106] [emoji39] [emoji48]

MERRY CHRISTMAS
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] spearoid:
Oh man, your suggestion got me pretty excited :) But no dice. I'm sure v3 is going to be awesome....but I'm actually in no rush to change ROMs....I've got you ROM set up beautifully right now....and am digging things the way they are.

I wish I understood more how the toggle switches work behind the scenes....there must be a dependency somewhere that I'm missing or can't find.

I know some ROMs in the past have required a zip file flashed before the flashlight can work via a toggle. If I recall, I had to send my secsettings.apk file to a dev one time for him to give that functionality to a ROM I had already installed.

I don't like my phone getting the best of me!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] bkkzak:
Or you can use 7zip for sure on Windows; that seems to be preferential cuz you don't have to unzip it and it doesn't mess with the file system
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] stang5litre:
Go into Recovery and wipe cache and delvik, then flash this and prosper

Have a Merry Christmas with your Flash light added ;)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/q86kl1sfy5pmtsw/stang5litre_FLASHABLE_ADD_All_Toggles.zip?dl=0
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] spearoid:
thank you very much for the file and trying to help!

it did not provide a torch or flashlight toggle however.

I wiped cache and dalvik and then flashed the zip file, with Flashfire....and when I booted up there was no toggle...I tried resetting the notification panel, still nothing new.

I know the assumption would be and SHOULD be that I'm just incompetent, but I know how to use SQlite and I know how to spell :)

It seems like the simplest explanation would be that there is something missing in the non-MDK v2 ROM....I did the install on 3 phones...and I've only had success adding the Toolbox toggle.

I guess someone who is using that version could post and speak to their success of enabling the torch toggle via SQlite

Thanks for trying to help....I can live without it!

Merry Christmas all!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] stang5litre:
Do you have a app in you system/app called add toggle? So crazy . Look to make sure you don't have 2 reset lines as well. I have seen that happen. And of course you know to put ; at the end of every one of them. That is odd to say the least
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] spearoid:
I do see addtoggles.apk in the system/app....with the s on the end of toggle

I don't see two lines in the database with reset.....I just see the three different entries that have the toggle listings....and only one of the three has the word reset in it.