Samsung Galaxy S4 thread - See Mod Warning in Post #1

Gaffs89

griffdaddy wrote: »

Rooting or flashing a custom rom does not void your warranty in the EU. There should be a sticky about this at this stage.

While you may be correct ,best of luck sending your phone back to Samsung and then trying to disprove them when they say the cause of your problem is unofficial software. You may not be able to flash it back to stock before sending it back.

quad_red

donkey balls wrote: »

Would you mind posting up the links to how you did it as I'm thinking of rooting mine as the battery is crap since the last update 4.2.2 cheers.

Did a good bit of reading but went with the instructions, tools and files in this guide.


http://www.technobuffa...oogle-edition-phone/

griffdaddy

Gaffs89 wrote: »

While you may be correct ,best of luck sending your phone back to Samsung and then trying to disprove them when they say the cause of your problem is unofficial software. You may not be able to flash it back to stock before sending it back.

There's reports of people sending phones back after a bad flash and having them fixed. I might be mistaken but think I might have even read one here on boards.

balkieb2002

quad_red wrote: »

Did a good bit of reading but went with the instructions, tools and files in this guide.


http://www.technobuffa...oogle-edition-phone/

Do you mind posting that link again as the it's cut off on the middle?

It's OK i've found it

http://www.technobuffalo.com/videos/how-to-turn-a-galaxy-s4-into-a-google-edition-phone/

cosanostra

I highly recommend this rom http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2557353 very stable and well supported by the developer. There's plenty of tutorials on youtube that will get you started and i'd recommend TWRP for your custom recovery

quad_red

balkieb2002 wrote: »

Do you mind posting that link again as the it's cut off on the middle?

It's OK i've found it

http://www.technobuffalo.com/videos/how-to-turn-a-galaxy-s4-into-a-google-edition-phone/

I don't know why it chopped it in half Thanks for fixing it!

Lanaier

Curious if anyone here has been using the i9500 with Cyanogenmod 11 or other custom ROMS (Carrier: 3).

I just bought one in China and I've played around with several ROMS but all (except stock) had issues with it not hanging up on calls.

About to go back to a stock ROM, just wondering if anyone out there was in the same boat.

People with similar issues found solutions in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2635758

But I'm not sure how I would obtain the 3 rils.
I'm not a phone-guy by any means so this is a little out of my field.
My understanding it that CM11 is CDMA friendly and Ireland is a CDMA zone?

DERPY DERPFACE

I thought only America uses CDMA.

Lanaier

Ah I see, so Ireland is GSM and UMTS?

That should take me a few steps further to a solution, thanks.

EDIT: Flashed with a stock ROM now so hopefully my issues will be sorted.
I quite enjoyed some of the custom ROMS I installed since I got the phone (Friday), especially CWM11... but to be quite honest I like the standard touchwiz interface just as much.
Don't see why it gets hated on.

If I don't encounter anymore problems I'll be sticking with this quite happly.

bijou

Sully wrote: »

Anyone having issues since the KitKat roll out?

Had loads of problems following update to KitKat (which the device did itself - never asked if I wanted it).
1. Battery was terrible lasting only a few hours.
2. Device overheating.
3. Serious lag when trying to open apps etc.
4. Constantly switching itself off and rebooting.
5. Camera Failure.

Contacted Samsung who said do a factory reset. Did that and it seemed to have sorted itself out except for 1 or 2 issues - Camera Failure. Camera is pretty much buggered - everytime I try to open the camera I get the dreaded "Camera Failed" message. And every now and then the device does heat up but not as bad as before!!

Only had the device since Oct last year. Contacted o2 and all they could say was bring it in and we'll send it off. Driving me nuts not being able to use the camera :rolleyes:

akaSol

Down load the Google camera or similar see if they pop up the camera fail.
If it continues use kies to reflash the phone using emergency recovery mode.

Remember : back every thing up first !

>Sol

bijou

akaSol wrote: »

Down load the Google camera or similar see if they pop up the camera fail.
If it continues use kies to reflash the phone using emergency recovery mode.

Remember : back every thing up first !

>Sol

Thanks akaSol
Tried that and kies to no avail.... so a trip to o2 methinks!

apope8

cosanostra wrote: »

I highly recommend this rom http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2557353 very stable and well supported by the developer. There's plenty of tutorials on youtube that will get you started and i'd recommend TWRP for your custom recovery

Flashed this 2 days ago and the difference is unbelievable. So smooth without all the samsung bloat and the battery life has improved substantially.

I dont think I'll buy any phone that isn't stock android again.

balkieb2002

cosanostra wrote: »

I highly recommend this rom http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2557353 very stable and well supported by the developer. There's plenty of tutorials on youtube that will get you started and i'd recommend TWRP for your custom recovery

Flashed the customised version of the above rom last night and I'm really liking it so far. I initially had a problem where every time I put my phone to sleep it would drop the network signal but changing the baseband has resolved this.

I'm missing some of the basic features of touchwiz such as contacts sync, music player, watchon, profile switcher and a few others though I'm finding useful alternatives that I would normally would never have looked at.

Be interesting to see how battery life is but like post above me, I'm loving the smoothness of everything.

jca

balkieb2002 wrote: »

Flashed the customised version of the above rom last night and I'm really liking it so far. I initially had a problem where every time I put my phone to sleep it would drop the network signal but changing the baseband has resolved this.

I'm missing some of the basic features of touchwiz such as contacts sync, music player, watchon, profile switcher and a few others though I'm finding useful alternatives that I would normally would never have looked at.

Be interesting to see how battery life is but like post above me, I'm loving the smoothness of everything.

How do I actually do it? I there a noobies guide anywhere?

sentient_6

jca wrote: »

How do I actually do it? I there a noobies guide anywhere?

One thing you could do is install cyanogenmod from their windows installer. Pretty much fool proof. Phone is then rooted (technically meaning you could install any rom from recovery from there) but cyanogenmod is pretty much the same as Google play edition anyway.

balkieb2002

balkieb2002 wrote: »

http://www.technobuffalo.com/videos/how-to-turn-a-galaxy-s4-into-a-google-edition-phone/

cosanostra wrote: »

I highly recommend this rom http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2557353 very stable and well supported by the developer. There's plenty of tutorials on youtube that will get you started and i'd recommend TWRP for your custom recovery

jca wrote: »

How do I actually do it? I there a noobies guide anywhere?

I used the the easy to follow guide in the first quote in combination with the rom in the second quote.

For anything I wasn't sure about I just had a look at the posts on XDA.

numorouno

This question may have been answered but if I Flash a rom will the mhl to hdmi still work?
I flashed a few roms on my s2 last year and it didn't work

numorouno

This question may have been answered but if I Flash a rom will the mhl to hdmi still work?
I flashed a few roms on my s2 last year and it didn't work

Lanaier

Depends on the rom and the device.

balkieb2002

Just wondering if anyone using the Google Edition Rom has lost use of the IR Blaster?

I used to use mine with WatchOn as I had lost a remote for a second TV and found it quite useful but since installing the rom I've lost this function. From my understanding this was part of the Samsung Rom but from what I've read on XDA it seems to function for most [the notification light apparently doesn't come on before the function works] but not for the various apps I've tested it with.

Morrisseeee

How-to unlock your S4, I haven't tried it but it looks straightforward.
/hopefully it's ok to post it

MrVestek

Morrisseeee wrote: »

How-to unlock your S4, I haven't tried it but it looks straightforward.
/hopefully it's ok to post it

That doesn't seem to work on international varients. At least it didn't on mine the last time I had an S4.

JDxtra

I have the ROM from XDA (4.4.4) on my S4 about two weeks now. Wow, a new lease of life to the phone - nice and clean image, not a single crash either.

This is where Android is suffering - each manufacturer customising to suit their brand. It should be a choice!

sentient_6

JDxtra wrote: »

I have the ROM from XDA (4.4.4) on my S4 about two weeks now. Wow, a new lease of life to the phone - nice and clean image, not a single crash either.

This is where Android is suffering - each manufacturer customising to suit their brand. It should be a choice!

Link to the rom for a look?

Morrisseeee

MrVestek wrote: »

That doesn't seem to work on international varients. At least it didn't on mine the last time I had an S4.

The 2nd option brought up the menu for me, I didn't go any further.......yet!

I accidently updated to 4.4.2 recently and having known about certain issues, I can gladly report that the update to KitKat hasn't been as bad as I feared.

JDxtra

This one (Pure Nexus Edition)...

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2557353

mightyreds

Dunno if its been asked is anyone getting the restart on apps that use camera I'm running cyanagemod 11 is there a fix or recommended a good stable ROM neat ROM was the same

Mc Love

just downloaded latest 4.4.4 CM 11 Nightly - havent updated since March so phone should be back to its best

Riesen_Meal

JDxtra wrote: »

This one (Pure Nexus Edition)...

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2557353

Put this on my mates S4 last night, she is absolutely beasting along after....