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

Keano · 07-10-2013 06:56PM

Trying to help a friend root his S4(GT-i9505) but not having much luck. I've rooted my old Desire and Sensation(which was tough at the beginning). What guides have people used?

MarkR · 07-10-2013 07:05PM

I think I used this one.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2250824

Keano · 07-10-2013 07:12PM

Thanks my fellow Shannon man

brian ireland · 07-10-2013 07:44PM

Anyone looking for cases I got this and its quite nice.

Dozen Wicked Words · 08-10-2013 10:44AM

brian ireland wrote: »

Anyone looking for cases I got this and its quite nice.

Looks lovely, being as "ultra-thin" as it says though, will it give any protection at all from a drop? Tempted to order one though for a different colour choice

brian ireland · 08-10-2013 04:52PM

Dozen Wicked Words wrote: »

Looks lovely, being as "ultra-thin" as it says though, will it give any protection at all from a drop? Tempted to order one though for a different colour choice

Its as thin as it can be as the phone fits inside. I think its thin enough, its certainly not bulky. I bought one a bit cheaper from another ebay seller in Silver for my son. You will have to trim a small bit of plastic from non samsung chargers with a sharp knife but its easy enough. I think it will protect your phone if its dropped as the corners of the screen is covered by the metal case.

MonkstownHoop · 08-10-2013 10:05PM

can anyone recommend a good spare battery on amazon?

Soby · 09-10-2013 03:18AM

Best kind of SD card on amazon lads ?

Keano · 10-10-2013 05:18PM

GorillaRising wrote: »

Cheers for that! 400MB vs the 6GB Samsung have on it! Deal.

Sorry for digging up an old post but trying to install this ROM on a friends S4, rooted it no problem but no matter where I move the ROM to be it, sd card or on the actual phone I get

E: Can't open /data/media/0/Pure-Google-pre-rooted-4.3-v2.1.zip error message. I've been at it ages and after tonight I'm just telling him to stick with the bloatware!!

Thanks

CreepingDeath · 10-10-2013 05:29PM

brian ireland wrote: »

Anyone looking for cases I got this and its quite nice.

I've ordered one of these from DealExtreme... DX Link

Will review when it arrives (typically 4-6 week delivery time)

projectgtr · 19-10-2013 09:15PM

Wow that was the shortest time ive had a new phone

, just sold mine today, it was a decent phone but just not for me, roll on the new Nexus. On the funny side i had never taken the plastic off my camera, i didnt know it was there, probably the reason some shots were a little blurry

DARK-KNIGHT · 20-10-2013 01:24PM

Traded an iphone 5 for a galaxy note 2 plus 100 euro my way!!! I think i got good value tge note 2 is lovely

GIMP · 20-10-2013 01:35PM

DARK-KNIGHT wrote: »

Traded an iphone 5 for a galaxy note 2 plus 100 euro my way!!! I think i got good value tge note 2 is lovely

What has this to do with a Galaxy S4 thread?? Start a new thread relating to the Note or Iphone !!

donkey balls · 23-10-2013 03:39PM

Hi all,
I have my S4 since around August it has Android 4.2.2 installed anyone know if a more up to date firmware has since been released,Also the battery life is getting worse can barely get 6/8 hours out of it,And that is with hardly any calls just texting and reading E mails.
I am with 3.

timetogo · 23-10-2013 03:54PM

donkey balls wrote: »

Hi all,
I have my S4 since around August it has Android 4.2.2 installed anyone know if a more up to date firmware has since been released,Also the battery life is getting worse can barely get 6/8 hours out of it,And that is with hardly any calls just texting and reading E mails.
I am with 3.

I installed 4.3 using Odin the other day. Shag all difference that I can see. There's a new Reading Mode which changes the screen in some way that I can't see when you're using ebook apps. Apart from that no cosmetic differences. I only installed the new ROM as I shagged up the phone when trying to root it. So this was an emergency procedure with some breath holding.

The handy part about popping on the new ROM was that I could uninstall all the Vodafone apps that I never used but seemed to be running in the background. When I installed the ROM it didn't wipe my old data. I'd back up first though.

DARK-KNIGHT · 23-10-2013 03:55PM

GIMP wrote: »

What has this to do with a Galaxy S4 thread?? Start a new thread relating to the Note or Iphone !!

Wrongbthread oops.... were you made a mod here?? :P

MrVestek · 23-10-2013 03:57PM

donkey balls wrote: »

Hi all,
I have my S4 since around August it has Android 4.2.2 installed anyone know if a more up to date firmware has since been released,Also the battery life is getting worse can barely get 6/8 hours out of it,And that is with hardly any calls just texting and reading E mails.
I am with 3.

Make sure you're not over charging the device and that you're allowing it to go through full charge and decharge cycles.

Also make sure that the phone is in powersaver mode. Mine lasts all day anyway with moderate to heavy LCD and GPS usage in a day (I play Ingress on it alot).

There is a version of 4.3 on the way but it hasn't been released yet as far as I know.

DARK-KNIGHT · 23-10-2013 03:57PM

Actually while i am here which phone would you cobsider better the note 2 or the s4???

donkey balls · 23-10-2013 04:01PM

Achilles wrote: »

Make sure you're not over charging the device and that you're allowing it to go through full charge and decharge cycles.

Also make sure that the phone is in powersaver mode. Mine lasts all day anyway with moderate to heavy LCD and GPS usage in a day (I play Ingress on it alot).

There is a version of 4.3 on the way but it hasn't been released yet as far as I know.

I do have it on stand bye mode were by looking at the phone it seems to be turned off until a message comes through and it lights up,As for charging normally I plug the phone in just as I'm about to go to bed and don't unplug it till I wake up.

MrVestek · 23-10-2013 04:02PM

DARK-KNIGHT wrote: »

Actually while i am here which phone would you cobsider better the note 2 or the s4???

A note 2 is basically an S4 with a larger screen and some more bells and whistles.

A better question to ask would be: what are your requirements?

evolutionqy7 · 23-10-2013 09:04PM

Try Snapdragon Battery Guru. It stops apps from refreshing pointlessly (I'm looking at you Google services, and your location services)

My battery has gone down to quiet good use, minimal I mediocre use during work leaves me with around 75% left at around 6PM. Then I pretty much kill it before midnight by checking news, fb, twitter and video.

Right now screen on time is standing at 2 hours since 7:40 this morning.

Also a good tip is to turn off any Google plus syncing and drop box gallery video, document and picture sync. Found those to take up a bit of battery life.

I've also 2 spare batteries and external battery charger to get me through heavier days when I'm away from the charger.

markc1184 · 24-10-2013 02:14AM

I've just installed the snapdragon app. It says it 8s in learning mode for 4 days and 3 hours. Does that timeline sound right?

evolutionqy7 · 24-10-2013 08:08AM

markc1184 wrote: »

I've just installed the snapdragon app. It says it 8s in learning mode for 4 days and 3 hours. Does that timeline sound right?

Yup, just about. Takes a couple of days to calibrate. You can still manually select the apps and select their refresh settings.

donkey balls · 24-10-2013 04:39PM

At the moment I have battery defender and advance task killer should I delete them and just install the snap dragon app instead,Any opinions welcome.

evolutionqy7 · 24-10-2013 05:57PM

donkey balls wrote: »

At the moment I have battery defender and advance task killer should I delete them and just install the snap dragon app instead,Any opinions welcome.

I wouldn't bother with the task killer in the first place. Not 100% sure but I don't think there's any point of having two battery savers. I tries battery defender pro before and just didn't find it that helpful + it confused the **** out of me with its set up

themacdaddy · 25-10-2013 03:03PM

Spigen Slim Armour case for sale here on Grabone....cheaper than most places I think.

markc1184 · 27-10-2013 10:51AM

Does anyone that is using the Accuweather widget, know how to update the time settings after the clocks changed?

Aidric · 27-10-2013 04:08PM

markc1184 wrote: »

Does anyone that is using the Accuweather widget, know how to update the time settings after the clocks changed?

Tap the widget to open. Press the menu button and you will be presented with settings option. Scroll to the last option which is 'set time'.

evolutionqy7 · 31-10-2013 02:30PM

Any one notice their phone slowing down from time to time? Have to restart the thing to get rid of the lag.

themacdaddy · 31-10-2013 02:53PM

evolutionqy7 wrote: »

Any one notice their phone slowing down from time to time? Have to restart the thing to get rid of the lag.

Ye, doesnt happen too often to me but ye I have noticed it. Restart works for me too.

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