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

numorouno · 16-08-2013 10:31PM

techdiver wrote: »

Hey,

Has anyone had any issues connection the S4 to your cars Bluetooth?

I had an S2 previously and it connects fine to my cars Bluetooth. But since getting the S4 I cannot connect it to the Bluetooth.

I reset the Bluetooth on the car, but still no joy.

I have read on some online forums that Samsung have not made the Bluetooth backward compatible with older devices as the specification defines.

If that is the case that's ridiculous!

Anyway, has anyone had similar issues?

No working fine for my parrot

evolutionqy7 · 16-08-2013 11:18PM

I have a parrot kit in my car and it works fine. Though I have seen S4s not working with older parrot kits

evolutionqy7 · 17-08-2013 05:53PM

Got a call today from CPW to pick up my phone. Not too shaby, they returned it to me in 6 days

(Gladly puts the HTC one x back in the corner)

timetogo · 17-08-2013 09:37PM

pah wrote: »

Works fine with both my sd10 headphones and my 2006 smax Ford Bluetooth

evolutionqy7 wrote: »

I have a parrot kit in my car and it works fine. Though I have seen S4s not working with older parrot kits

Me three. Works fine with Ford Sync.

Kenno90 · 19-08-2013 08:10AM

Had an interesting glitch last night, Charged my Phone like i do every night but this morning it was at 3%.

I checked the battery info and it was going down despite it saying Charging. Its working now. Hopefully a once off

whitelightrider · 21-08-2013 09:20AM

Folks, Im seeing an issue with my S4 today in that it doesnt seem to have any Data functionality. I cant get emails, etc on it. Mobile Data is on but its still not working. Have tried a reboot and a full boot with battery taken out and put back in.

Quazzie · 21-08-2013 09:37AM

whitelightrider wrote: »

Folks, Im seeing an issue with my S4 today in that it doesnt seem to have any Data functionality. I cant get emails, etc on it. Mobile Data is on but its still not working. Have tried a reboot and a full boot with battery taken out and put back in.

On meteor? I had the same problem yesterday. Full reception. 3G but wouldn't load anything. Later on in the day my phone restarted itself and was fine.

themacdaddy · 21-08-2013 09:41AM

Quazzie wrote: »

On meteor? I had the same problem yesterday. Full reception. 3G but wouldn't load anything. Later on in the day my phone restarted itself and was fine.

I noticed this happens if you don't restart your phone every 2 days or so. I am on Meteor also

MarkR · 21-08-2013 09:45AM

Mobile data and wifi, or just mobile data?

whitelightrider · 21-08-2013 09:53AM

Tried the restart and still no joy.
Wifi seems fine. Just mobile data. Might have to get on to Vodafone

Quazzie · 21-08-2013 09:55AM

themacdaddy wrote: »

I noticed this happens if you don't restart your phone every 2 days or so. I am on Meteor also

A manual restart didn't fix my issue though which I thought was weird. It was only when I looked at my phone as I walked out from work that I noticed that I needed to input my pin, so presumably sometime between lunch and the end of work it restarted itself.

I only noticed it on Mobile Data as I wasn't connected to Wifi

whitelightrider · 21-08-2013 10:16AM

Ill have to give the good folks in VF a call about it I think

themacdaddy · 21-08-2013 11:19AM

MarkR wrote: »

Mobile data and wifi, or just mobile data?

texts, mobile data, and calls. Sometimes when I restart my phone I will get a few missed call notifications even though at the time my phone was on and in full reception.

projectgtr · 21-08-2013 11:36AM

Meteor have been testing their 4g network lately seems to have a sporadic effect on data, so it's not just you or your s4

apope8 · 22-08-2013 04:24PM

Just got a notification that an update is available for my s4 anyone know whats new?

brian ireland · 22-08-2013 05:37PM

apope8 wrote: »

Just got a notification that an update is available for my s4 anyone know whats new?

My phone is rooted, are updates impossible now?

mccard · 22-08-2013 08:29PM

I need to carrier unlock a friends S4. Tried this work around but no joy

http://gs4.wonderhowto.com/how-to/carrier-unlock-your-samsung-galaxy-s4-so-you-can-use-another-sim-card-0148110/

I presume if I root and unlock the bootloader this will in turn unlock the carrier restriction?

madmoe · 23-08-2013 08:37AM

mccard wrote: »

I need to carrier unlock a friends S4. Tried this work around but no joy

http://gs4.wonderhowto.com/how-to/carrier-unlock-your-samsung-galaxy-s4-so-you-can-use-another-sim-card-0148110/

I presume if I root and unlock the bootloader this will in turn unlock the carrier restriction?

You need to flash an older modem mate to get access to the service menu, do you know how to do that!?

Cheers,
M

brian ireland · 23-08-2013 09:40AM

Rooted the phone and deleted some of the stock apps. I don't have the lock screen "Life Companion" and clock anymore. The settings are all still in the phone and I can change the text to Life is Life etc but it wont show on the lock screen. Help!!!!

mccard · 23-08-2013 10:03AM

madmoe wrote: »

You need to flash an older modem mate to get access to the service menu, do you know how to do that!?

Cheers,
M

Yes, I can get to the service menu. I tried it twice, both times the phone rebooted and seem to do something but alas it was still locked. I am wary of doing it too many times in case I damage the handset. So rooting and unlocking the bootloader will not unlock the phone?

madmoe · 23-08-2013 10:15AM

mccard wrote: »

Yes, I can get to the service menu. I tried it twice, both times the phone rebooted and seem to do something but alas it was still locked. I am wary of doing it too many times in case I damage the handset. So rooting and unlocking the bootloader will not unlock the phone?

No need to root\unlock bootloader mate or anything like that, you just need to flash the correct modem (DXUAME2) using Odin and then you will be able to get into the service menu.

Cheers,
M

donkey balls · 23-08-2013 10:16AM

Lads I'm due my up grade now should I go for the S4 I've had both the S2 and 3 so I am used to the layout, My S3 is more or less knackered after the last up date it keeps freezing and going in to safe mode.

MrVestek · 23-08-2013 11:24AM

brian ireland wrote: »

Rooted the phone and deleted some of the stock apps. I don't have the lock screen "Life Companion" and clock anymore. The settings are all still in the phone and I can change the text to Life is Life etc but it wont show on the lock screen. Help!!!!

Don't delete stock apps? Some of them are tied in to TouchWiz and are required for their functionality. (this is why people who are inexperienced with rooting should ask for someone's advice first).

Restore your phone to an earlier point or backup your user data using something like Titanium and reflash the phone.

Irish Gunner · 26-08-2013 08:29PM

What's the best place to buy online and get delivery to UK as looking at getting one this week & delivered to London

Thanks

pad199207 · 26-08-2013 10:54PM

A window keeps popping up saying software update failed due to no space on sd card or internal storage. Its annoying. Anybody else getting it?

kkhornet · 28-08-2013 10:19AM

I'm having a problem with my battery for the last week or so, the phone just keeps randomly shutting down while in use.
Most recently being this morning, unplugged the phone, after half an hour I checked facebook and 5 minutes later the phone died and wouldn't turn back on.
I plugged in the charger and turned on the phone and was at 90% so plugged back out.
20 minutes later phone goes again when playing tapped out and I repeated the plug in, turn on process and its showing 65%.
What can or should I do or could it be more than just battery problem.

RVN10 · 04-09-2013 09:24PM

kkhornet wrote: »

I'm having a problem with my battery for the last week or so, the phone just keeps randomly shutting down while in use.
Most recently being this morning, unplugged the phone, after half an hour I checked facebook and 5 minutes later the phone died and wouldn't turn back on.
I plugged in the charger and turned on the phone and was at 90% so plugged back out.
20 minutes later phone goes again when playing tapped out and I repeated the plug in, turn on process and its showing 65%.
What can or should I do or could it be more than just battery problem.

Don't know if you figured it out but my bro had the same problem. The battery wasnt holding a charge passed 50% and kept switching off. He had to send his away for repair and that solved the problem.

kkhornet · 05-09-2013 12:38PM

RVN10 wrote: »

Don't know if you figured it out but my bro had the same problem. The battery wasnt holding a charge passed 50% and kept switching off. He had to send his away for repair and that solved the problem.

Cheers dude, brought it down to carphone warehouse last saturday about the problem. the woman barely blinked, just said "another one for the pile to be sent back"
Must be a common enough problem.
Hopefully have it back with me soon enough and working perfectly

tazwaz · 05-09-2013 02:23PM

Hi, I have an iPhone 4 at the mo but am moving to eMobile where Incan get the s4 at a decent price (I think ðŸ˜„)... Is it possible to move my pics, texts etc from iPhone up s4?
Thanks

kkhornet · 10-09-2013 03:53PM

kkhornet wrote: »

Cheers dude, brought it down to carphone warehouse last saturday about the problem. the woman barely blinked, just said "another one for the pile to be sent back"
Must be a common enough problem.
Hopefully have it back with me soon enough and working perfectly

Fixed and collected last Friday, yay!!!

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