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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Redflea:
Nova solves all problems except male pattern baldness.

On another topic - switched back to Surge's stock kernel from the OP (had run his a couple versions back on previous Stang ROM version) and am liking how things are running. I was getting some slow-downs and other problems that I was attributing to issues w/Xposed, but since I've switched to Surge's kernel yesterday morning everything has been smooth. Need to run it a few more days but so far it's been very nice.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] stang5litre:
I have nova prime I just can't get into it for some reason. Am I missing something?? Like features or. May have a fix for call recording still trying. Having to get files from a international Rom and see if that fixes it.

Ps call recording is a pain in the arse!!!!!!!!!

Ya ever since I got the latest kernel from Surge1223 via PM and put it up. Been great!!!

What do you like about it?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] stang5litre:
Have to ask how the heck did you get 3 days? Do you ever use the phone or do you turn it off every night?? Geez super jelly
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] rpoitras:
No, I'm not really a heavy phone user so my case is probably not typical. But, my usage is consistent so it's usually fairly easy for me to tell what works better (for me). If you use the phone enough that you are charging every night then small differences won't usually show up but in this case with the kernels, I was already seeing over a day difference so thought I'd mention it.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] AliceBToklas:
It's all subjective I suppose but it seems faster and I like the configuration options. Many of the options come to TW with custom ROMS but specifically I like to configure

desktop grid

hide the search bar

infinite scroll

hide the notification bar

I'm sure there is more but I forget. Then, of course, it is trivial to restore all your settings after flashing ROMs.

Again, much of this can be done otherwise but Nova makes it all simple & easy.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Neffy27:
leaves airplane mode on when he's not talking on it.

=p
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] stang5litre:
Ya infinite scroll already on rom so no use for me, everything else can be done with xposed. But I can see where people might like it, like asop feel. I like TW for some reason or I would just use a asop rom and save Alot of space and makes it faster. Shrug. I like graphics so 3d launcher is better to me. But again it's all on a personal basis like you said.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] stang5litre:
Lol ?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Osama Chishty:
battery draining fast

anyone haveing issue with battery ??
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] ljcorsa:
Running surge's stock kernel with good result, but I just noticed that Titanium Backup fails to write to the external SD card. Seems like this was a policy change that occurred back in KitKat days, and there was an easy workaround. Is that still needed on Lolli? Anyone else having this issue?? Pretty sure it was not in play on the hybridmax kernel fwiw...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Redflea:
I think I've noticed a difference w/Surge's stock kernel.

W/hybridmax, if I changed volume when playing audio (podcast or movie or whatever) it seemed like I would default to changing the ringtone volume (at least some of the time) rather than the media volume.

W/Surge's kernel it seems like it always does what it should - defaults to changing the media volume.

Just me, or anyone else see this?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] D4oidz3r:
I can confirm the same thing would happen sometimes while on Hybridmax. I flashed Surge's kernel last night, everything is going well so far. I was starting to get really bad battery life with Hybridmax, I'll be happy if I can get a 25% increase in battery life with Surge's :)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] stang5litre:
You will be very happy. You get way better with Surge123 kernel.

loving it

This happened to me as well but thought I might have hit something or was delusional lol

If your SS OR FF use oc1 for better battery. If your MDK use surge1223 kernel for supreme battery power
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Neffy27:
I was experiencing the same issue. Can you add more specifics, MDK? non-MDK? Version of ROM with S4 or S5 weather widget?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Surge1223:
A fellow podcaster, yesssss thought I was the only one.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] kitcostantino:
I am no stranger to custom ROMs, but this took a few tries. Verizon S4 on OF1.. Its probably mentioned, but to anyone who keeps soft-bricking without success, put your files on internal storage. That was my issue. Waiting for boot finally, instead of prepping another round of Odin. Woot! Big thanks [MENTION=4840281]stang5litre[/MENTION] !!

EDIT:: Booted!!! Woot!

EDIT 2: so no kernel flash via Flash FIre is see. Odin again it is! :)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] xalmanreyaz:
can i use substratum on this rom ???
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] stang5litre:
You didn't flash the kernel after the rom? It's in the OP. Let me know

Tbh I don't know what that is to be able to tell you. Try and see

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] kitcostantino:
i flashed the wifi fix when i flashed everything else. all was good. i wanted to try the different faux settings (which were not on my install) so i flashed just the kernel via flashfire. got a [your device is bricked] samsung message. ;) i just was saying i didnt know if you could flash a kernel by itself via flashfire. i.e.- can kernel be changed after flashfire on an OF1 device, or are we limited to what is in the rom? thank you again for the great work, man.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] stang5litre:
If your on OF1 your are limited on kernel for sure. You can flash kernels by them selves like you did but the kernel you flashed I believe was for a unlocked phone (MDK) . The WiFi fix zip has the OF1 kernel in it. I know [MENTION=4168602]klabit87[/MENTION] made modules that could be loaded on locked bl kernel but I believe he did OC1 and never got the address for OF1 or had to much on his plate. Your welcome for the rom . [emoji1] Just trying to help where I can .

But if your OF1 your stuck on that one kernel. Nothing you can do.

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] kitcostantino:
Awesome. Thank you!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Joe_6pak:
On to another thing - Should I upgrade my xposed installer to 3.0 alpha 4? I have 3.0 alpha 2 on there now, but the framework needs to be installed and I can only find the zip file (have to install it manually - damn) for alpha 4. How would I go about updating xposed, or should I even bother (and install the alpha 4 framework)? It's really confusing to a rank amateur like myself, and the thought of bootloops scares me. Appreciate any help you can offer to the most mucho degree!

No, thank you. You're the one helping me out.

I'm looking for the apk's and running into some confusion (what else is new). If you could post the links I'd appreciate it. Let me get this straight now. I have 3.0 alpha 2 on the phone now. Will it upgrade to alpha 4 by just flashing the alpha 4 apk? If so, do I need to then flash the alpha 4 framework? Or do I just flash the alpha 4 framework file on my alpha 2 installer to get that one to work?

Told you I was confused. Did I mention that bootloops scare the crap out of me?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] kitcostantino:
another thought... this i545 was found in one of my company's stores, contact was attempted for ~6 months, then they gave it to me. the screen is cracked, but functional. i have another s4, that is a friend of mines i have to pull data from. his screen is completely non-functional and broken. my thoughts: i have nothing to lose if i hard brick this one (verizon variant) [enter testing suggestions for the greater good if there are any...] my plan is to swap the boards and hope his is more ROM/flash friendly. (att variant) ive had it since last august, so the firmware should be old as crap. ;) is the att model less locked down, or same poop different toilet?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] ATGkompressor:
[MENTION=3836686]kitcostantino[/MENTION]

OF1 modules here: https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24459283995307172 are fully functional with your OF1 kernel. Make sure to thank [MENTION=4168602]klabit87[/MENTION] for the hard work on bringing us a sense of normalcy to a new era of restricted customization.

As for Xposed, I highly recommend the Material Xposed Installer apk here: http://xdaforums.com/xposed/material-design-xposed-installer-t3137758/page144 It's the 3.0 alpha4 and has some awesome added features that aren't present in rovo89's all. Just install it as you would any other apk. The thread link for the framework recommended for this ROM is posted in this thread, you can search the thread for it.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] stang5litre:
Pretty sure just different toilet. MDK was the only base that was unlock able with motochopper exploit , anything after that is locked. Being that MDK was the first fw on the phone I bet you took at least one update. Which would make it non unlock able. But you can always check for sure. What fw is it on pls? Dl samsung phone info and it will tell you boot loader and all that stuff before you go through that for nothing. Besides the cracked screen which is a 10min fix. But I would definitely use the modules suggested [MENTION=5646464]ATGkompressor[/MENTION] has already suggested. I just wasn't sure if he had completed OF1 which he obviously did. [emoji106] [emoji48]

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] stang5litre:
[MENTION=5646464]ATGkompressor[/MENTION] what's up bro lol you leaving me hanging on the new animation lol [emoji12]

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] kitcostantino:
its on :

KTU85P. i337UCUFNJ4

looks like theres root. recovery/safestrap/etc i havent read up on yet.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] jed.padilla:
Can I ask a stupid question (too late I know)?

What is there difference between this rom and stang5litre Ultra Note5? I am getting ready to upgrade my 4.4.2 with MDK to 5.0

Side question based on something you said earlier today, can I unlock the bootloader since it is MDK to install something like Magisk? Ultimately I am looking for a way to keep root and let my son continue to play Pokemon Go while I shop for a new phone.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] stang5litre:
Are you not using TWRP as a recovery? If so your unlocked [emoji48] [emoji106] . Ultra Note5 is a port of note5 . But has some sensor bugs as all ports. But not bad.

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] jed.padilla:
I am indeed running TWRP as recovery. I had thought it was unlocked but another user had told me that it wasn't. I guess my follow up is if i use this rom and Magisk, will it pass SafetyNet? Or would I have to find a stock rom and use Magisk?

Sorry for the other questions, you just gave me hope I might be able to do this and make my son happy again :)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] stang5litre:
Lol np . You should be able to run Magisk just fine [emoji48] [emoji106] [emoji1] . You can also run custom kernels as well being MDK. Only those with locked bootloaders can't use it.

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] klabit87:
[MENTION=4840281]stang5litre[/MENTION] I've have the of1 modules complete lol. But there is always room for more if anybody are up to it.

Just needs to be compiled from the original source and built as a loadable module.

The potential is there for sure for tons of different options.

I just hit the end of the road for s4. Kind of wish I kept it now
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] tony332211:
Can i flash this rom if im on the stock i545vrugoc1 rom?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] tony332211:
Hope this is the info necessary :)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] ysuk9127:
Question about installation

I have the official firmware OF1 and not rooted. Is this okay to follow the OF1 installation procedure?

Also, I have more questions to go. I have the verizon model but my SIM card is T Mobile. And I noticed that the only the sms does

not work while other services are perfect. Do you think that this rom might be helpful in this case?

Furthermore, I tried to get back to the old firmwares like MK2 or NK1, I failed with Odin and became break.

So I repaired it by Verizon Repair Assistant but I still do not know what was wrong. I checked usb debugging and i also tried without

checking the usb debugging. Does anybody have any idea?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] ATGkompressor:
No buddy, I haven't really had the time to do it. My daughter made the basketball team at her school so I been practicing with her in my free time. Plus I'm waiting on my brand new MacBook so I can get in Adobe Ps and Illustrator and start rendering some better quality images. I've been learning lately about clandestine security camera techniques. Had my house broke into last week and they stole my tv's, laptop, my Wi-Fi router, do i been running AV all over the place setting up my new surveillance system, complete with IR spectrum, night vision, and motion detectors.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Bren123:
Thats just messed up hope you catch the people that took your stuff. And congrats to your daughter on making the basketball team. haha
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] tony332211:
Settings correct?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] jed.padilla:
Last question. Does the upgrade wipe the device? or does it just upgrade?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] stang5litre:
Yes looks good never seen the recovery at the bottom "preserve recovery" I don't have that checked.

It's always best to do a clean flash [emoji106]

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] tony332211:
Soo, I flashed it thru ff and got a brick, only thing available is the download screen for Odin. Did I do something wrong?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] stang5litre:
Did you uncheck the preserve recovery? As you don't have a recovery as I was saying earlier. Also are you not OF1? If so you flashed the wrong kernel...

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] ysuk9127:
Questions

I have the official firmware OF1 and not rooted. Is this okay to follow the OF1 installation procedure?

Also, I have more questions to go. I have the verizon model but my SIM card is T Mobile. And I noticed that the only the sms does

not work while other services are perfect. Do you think that this rom might be helpful in this case?

Furthermore, I tried to get back to the old firmwares like MK2 or NK1, I failed with Odin and became break.

So I repaired it by Verizon Repair Assistant but I still do not know what was wrong. I checked usb debugging and i also tried without

checking the usb debugging. Does anybody have any idea?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] kitcostantino:
i had the same model, same firmware, and it worked perfectly following the of1 instructions.

if it still isnt 100% you can find the full OF1 firmware in this forum. (i did). just to fix any unresolved issues, just flash it with odin (Again, this awesome forum)

root with kingroot, use super su me (i bought the full version and it failed to install super su, so i ]found] an earlier version, and that worked. updated su binary after super su me, installed flashfire, followed directions...

(order is wipe, ROM, Wifi Fix, super su 2.65 (google "chainfire super su 2.65 man, newest version (2.7xxx wont work). if your wipe isnt in the right order in the flashfire menu, press and hold it to drag it higher in the list. hope that helps.

if you end up with the samsung boot noise and a black screen you will have to odin back. i had to like 3 times. sounds like a lot of work, but its worth it.

as far as the network thing, all verizon lte phones are required to be unlocked for all networks, so thas why that works. google verizon, block C, and LTE if you are interested in why. ;)

as far as sms, once you root, an edit of build.prop will fix ya up. the line that says default carrier has to be right as well as lteoncdmadevice=1 needs to be lteongsmdevice=1. i dont have tmob so hopefully someone that does can chime in with the apn and build.prop they way you need them.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] tony332211:
Crap, what is the right kernel I need to use for the boot loader I have? (Noob question) How do I check what boot loader I have?

I will make sure to uncheck it when I revive my s4, I need the stock oc1 update but all these links limit my download speed. :(

EDIT: another question, what instructions do I follow??
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] jed.padilla:
Guess it is time to make a list of what I need to reinstall and backup what I need to. Thanks for all your help, I'll see how it all goes.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] lscheres:
Still using this room, Going to be getting a new phone on the good ole UDP verizon line and am going to use this S4 with OF1 on straight talk. Do you know if this rom will have any issues with that? Anyone used Straight talk with OF1??? BTW if you havent looked at straight talk they have verizon now and do $45/month for 5gb throttled after 5gb. Love it lol... But yes any idea on this rom? Think i may need to change APN settings?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] 3link22:
Dark Themes for this rom please...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] stang5litre:
I think someone tried it not sure if it worked. But I'm sure it's easy to swap if you need the APN. Might not have to change anything as they use Verizon towers and it's a Verizon phone as well. Won't really know until you activate it on that line. Let me know I'll try and help you out [emoji1] [emoji106]

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] stang5litre:
Look up themes on xda there is a collection of them. All of them don't work but some do . That's where I would check as I don't make themes.

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] jed.padilla:
Currently over 20 minutes in the Samsung screen after flashing (flash was successful according to TWRP). At what point do I worry it won't ever finish booting? I did take the SIM card out, is that an issue?

/edit

So something definitely isn't right. I pulled the battery and rebooted into recovery mode. Set it back to factory and flashed again. Again everything looked right, no errors. After it was done I selected reboot from TWRP. I have been at the Samsung screen for over an hour now. This was with a MDK bootloader. Any suggestions?

/edit 2

I seem to have made things worse for myslef. Previously I was on TWRP 2.5.0.2. I thought maybe the fact that it was old was the problem. So I downloaded 2.8.4.0 and tried to flash it. Now my device is at the Samsung Screen and in the upper left it says 'Recovery booting. . . .'

This is the point where I would tell my son to stop what he is doing and ask for an adult to help him, so I will take my own advice and stop until I can get some guidance.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] tony332211:
[MENTION=4840281]stang5litre[/MENTION] so I am back on full stock unrooted oc1 ( will root later of course ) and would like to know which I instructions I should follow. Please help me on this time, your rom sounds awesome!! :D
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Krog18:
Download Samsung phone info from the play store to find out what bootloader you're on and then follow instructions for that version.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] tony332211:
Your suggestion helped! I now know im on the oc1 bootloader. I will try again and see if results change... thanks! :D
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Krog18:
Np. If you still have trouble with ff messing up here are some things people have tried that may be helpful...

If you're using SD card storage, try flashing from internal instead or vice versa.

FF version 24 seems to have the most success for the s4. Google search the apk for that version and install.

Update supersu to v2.65
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] jed.padilla:
So I tried going back to the original MD2 tar that I used way back when the exploit was first found. Both it and the MDK tar flash fine via Odin, the phone reboots, and then after a few minutes reboots again but is trying to go into recovery mode. At this screen it just hangs for ever. At this point I have the sinking feeling that my phone is toast. Anyone have any advice?

---------- Post added at 12:56 AM ---------- Previous post was at 12:22 AM ----------

Progress!!!!

I happened to see the thread in here that had the huge stock factory image. I flashed it and after a few resets I have a working phone again!

Now I am at 4.2.2. I have the md2 and mdk files to re-enable root for MDK. From there I plan on reinstalling TWRP and trying this all again. My question is. What version of TWRP do I need, and since they are all img files and not md5's, how do I get it on the phone?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] firecodex:
[MENTION=4840281]stang5litre[/MENTION] -- I know I'm following up on something from May and you've probably forgotten all about it by now, but I just wanted to let you know that my issue where wifi will not activate following hotspot usage has returned. It was working following a re-flash, but after a week or so it broke again. I've just been putting up with it since.

To briefly explain the issue again: I use the trigger app to activate my hotspot function. Trigger is programmed so that when the phone peers with my car's headunit using bluetooth, it activates the hotspot. Once the phone no longer sees the headunit, it deactivates the hotspot. If I'm away from the headunit, the hotspot is turned off, and I try to activate wifi, it instead activates the hotspot. This happens every single time. Also, when I go into airplane mode, as soon as I deactivate airplane mode the hotspot turns on, even though it wasn't on before I went into airplane mode. This makes me think it has to be something with turning hotspot on and off like this that breaks wifi. Once it's broken it's permanently broken until I do a complete wipe and re-flash. Nothing else I've tried has made wifi work, even only temporarily, and not having it is really a pain. Would really appreciate any advice/ideas you might have. Thanks.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] jed.padilla:
Finally got it all installed! I think my original problem was using an older version of TWRP. I upgraded to 2.8.4.0 (Read that anything after wasn't properly lokied, and I have zero clue how to do that) and tried again. Everything is all working now.

The next step (for me at least) is to remove root, and get Magisk installed. First couple of attempts didn't go so smoothly.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] 3link22:
Unfortunately, settings has stopped after open calendar in setting apps... and calendar apps not show in drawer...please help me
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] tony332211:
Flashfire 24 wouldn't open so i updated to the latest version (0.53) via play store. Will download the ROM once again to flash it. Ill try to post a screenshot of my flash fire settings and wait for a response to flash... Thanks in advance!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] tony332211:
Fingers crossed..... :good:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] tony332211:
So I tried it and my s4 just factory reset itself... What is the cause of this?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] kostic2006:
disable bootanimation

hello, any way to disable custom boot animation?, it sound make me nervous a bit

standard samsung will be fine, I am on GOF1
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] tony332211:
Tried it once again on my third try.... And success!! I advise that you have patience while switching KingRoot with super su.....
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] tony332211:
[MENTION=4840281]stang5litre[/MENTION] your rom is amazing! There is so many features and it runs so smoothly!! 11/10 on this rom!!

Edit: any way to change the battery icon? I can hardly read the numbers....
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Krog18:
Yes, go to the 3 minit battery app and you can customize the battery icon. Change size, style, etc... [emoji106]