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

kildub · 09-11-2013 02:58PM

I've been having issues with battery power loss on s4. Tried all recommended solutions but still eating power as you watch it. Drains for no reason, even when not in use. Checked online, and see that Samsung recognise the problem and if you bring phone to service centre, they will replace the battery. Has anyone else been there or done that?

william · 10-11-2013 08:11PM

Hi, would anyone be able to recommend a MHL adapter for connecting to a HDTV? A link to the product you use would be very much appreciated.

Thanks, William

evolutionqy7 · 10-11-2013 09:12PM

william wrote: »

Hi, would anyone be able to recommend a MHL adapter for connecting to a HDTV? A link to the product you use would be very much appreciated.

Thanks, William

No link, but I got red mhl to hdmi cable from Amazon for about 15 euro. Unlike the official Samsung one, it charges the phone while TV out is being used. I have both the official and the third party one. Third party one is much handier as the hdmi is already built in and it charges the phone.

Grand for movies, useless for games though as there is a delay between what's shown on the phone and the TV screen.

Simi · 11-11-2013 04:15AM

I've been playing around with my phone trying to replicate some of the problems you're all experiencing. Nothing so far, but if I come across anything I'll report back.

If you are experiencing issues I'd recommend a factory reset. Unlike the disastrous s3 update, the issues you seem to be experiencing do not seem to be systemic.

SuprSi · 11-11-2013 10:17AM

Simi wrote: »

I've been playing around with my phone trying to replicate some of the problems you're all experiencing. Nothing so far, but if I come across anything I'll report back.

If you are experiencing issues I'd recommend a factory reset. Unlike the disastrous s3 update, the issues you seem to be experiencing do not seem to be systemic.

Thanks for checking - quick question; will a factory reset delete my music & data, or does it just reinstall the OS?

Simi · 11-11-2013 02:18PM

SuprSi wrote: »

Thanks for checking - quick question; will a factory reset delete my music & data, or does it just reinstall the OS?

If your music is on an external sd card it'll be fine. A factory reset doesn't usually erase what's on the internal sd, but it might.

Either way it's akin to reinstalling Windows on top of another installation, rather than from fresh. You might carry over the problems you're trying to eradicate. Better back up what you need and erase everything.

Irish Gunner · 11-11-2013 04:22PM

Just got me a free S4 white but never realised no FM radio on it Bummer:rolleyes: I know about all the apps for Internet radio but rather have it on the phone pity you cannot port the S3 radio..

Anywho the Jailbreak and fun begins. Was on Wanamlite Rom on the S3 and wondering whats the best for S4, saving me time trolling though all the posts here:o

Any recommendations? Also is the only way of rooting phone via Odin and a developers rom?

Ste- · 11-11-2013 04:25PM

Irish Gunner wrote: »

pity you cannot port the S3 radio..

The S4 doesn't have the hardware capable of radio so even if you could port it you'd still get no sound.

akaSol · 11-11-2013 04:32PM

Irish Gunner wrote: »

Just got me a free S4 white but never realised no FM radio on it Bummer:rolleyes: I know about all the apps for Internet radio but rather have it on the phone pity you cannot port the S3 radio..

Anywho the Jailbreak and fun begins. Was on Wanamlite Rom on the S3 and wondering whats the best for S4, saving me time trolling though all the posts here:o

Any recommendations? Also is the only way of rooting phone via Odin and a developers rom?

Apparently the XDA crowd have done it. Not sure on Irish builds of the phone
Bit of a CM fan tbo , but use PAC-Man on my old "bullet proof" DHD

>Sol

acalmenvoy · 11-11-2013 09:10PM

Anybody running Omega 13.2 rom on 3ireland. On their s4. If so. What modem (baseband) are you running. I'm having a problem holding a 3g signal.

seanbmc · 11-11-2013 09:58PM

So got the new update.

Can't seem to set the default messaging app to Hangouts though, anybody else tried this?

MonkstownHoop · 11-11-2013 10:13PM

Alot of my apps have no icons and dont show up in the app drawer after the update

Jarren · 11-11-2013 10:17PM

Got the update through Meteor this very early morning, happy with it so far :-)

MonkstownHoop · 11-11-2013 11:28PM

managed to fix my issue, i don't understand knox at all though

Jambo · 12-11-2013 09:39AM

Jambo wrote: »

I keep getting a knox security access issue but it wont tell me which app is at fault. (im not rooted etc)

I am also getting a real strange camera issue since the update where by every photo and video I have taken since the update self deletes itself after anything from 1min to 4hours after they were taken. eg today I took a few pictures in work, went in to view them in quickpic and they were fine, uploded them to drive this afternoon and now they are just gone off the phone all by themselves , yesterday a similar issue when I took 20+ pics onsite, reviewed them onsite and all was fine, drove back to the office to upload the pics and when I arrived all pics were now gone.! google doesn't throw up any clues for either issue.

Turns out my camera issue is a faulty Micro SD card (San Disk Ultra) that just decided to present itself at the same time as the update.

Jambo · 12-11-2013 09:44AM

seanbmc wrote: »

So got the new update.

Can't seem to set the default messaging app to Hangouts though, anybody else tried this?

AFAIK That is with the 4.4 Kitkat update, I assume you have just gotten the 4.3 update ?

You can sideload the app (Link) which I have done but I still seem to be getting som texts in both messaging and hangouts, where as others it hangouts only.

coldfire1x · 12-11-2013 10:57AM

Got the update 4.3 on Meteor. So what's new? Anyone able to figure out the new features in this update?

evolutionqy7 · 12-11-2013 02:55PM

coldfire1x wrote: »

Got the update 4.3 on Meteor. So what's new? Anyone able to figure out the new features in this update?

Well if you read through the thread you will see that the new update includes a feature to **** up your phone

Im holding out till custom roms get their whole KNOX mess fixed

coldfire1x · 12-11-2013 03:42PM

evolutionqy7 wrote: »

Well if you read through the thread you will see that the new update includes a feature to **** up your phone

Im holding out till custom roms get their whole KNOX mess fixed

FYI - KNOX is only a link after the update. It's there in the app drawer. You will still need to open the link and then download it. You can choose to ignore it if you dont want to use. When you click on the icon it gives tou option to install. I havent downloaded it. No problem so far. Also all my widgets etc are there. So I am ok with it at the moment until I discover something that **** my phone

Irish Gunner · 12-11-2013 05:46PM

Just checked my phone and its a GT i9506 which is not available yet its a pre production phone.

Afraid to root it but sick of adds and bloatware(just disabled them) no roms on XDA for this phone.

Any options?

evolutionqy7 · 12-11-2013 09:42PM

coldfire1x wrote: »

FYI - KNOX is only a link after the update. It's there in the app drawer. You will still need to open the link and then download it. You can choose to ignore it if you dont want to use. When you click on the icon it gives tou option to install. I havent downloaded it. No problem so far. Also all my widgets etc are there. So I am ok with it at the moment until I discover something that **** my phone

KNOX marks the phone in the bootloader as security breached therefore voiding your warranty apparently there's no way to mark it back to stock afterwards if you had to send it away for warranty , I do remember some stupid pop up coming as well that kept nagging me about security.

So I'm steering away from it for now on the custom side of things.

coldfire1x · 12-11-2013 11:58PM

evolutionqy7 wrote: »

KNOX marks the phone in the bootloader as security breached therefore voiding your warranty apparently there's no way to mark it back to stock afterwards if you had to send it away for warranty , I do remember some stupid pop up coming as well that kept nagging me about security.

So I'm steering away from it for now on the custom side of things.

I am not sure how it will void my warranty. The update is from Samsung OTA and its a meteor locked phone. This update was specifically for meteor phones. I did not use odin or anything like that for the update. Am I missing anything?

You are right about the pop up though. I got it couple of times as well but you also get a checkbox to mark as 'dont show it again for 30 days'.

Haven't noticed anything else or new as yet. Something may be there but I am not sure. So you might as well hold off the update.

Simi · 13-11-2013 02:10AM

I've had the update a few days now & I haven't noticed any major issues. I did have to re-pair my Bluetooth headphones & the Knox warning did appear when I reconnected to a wifi network, so I checked the ignore box. Massive oversight that it doesn't point out the offending app.

Other than that nothing seems amiss. Phone performance is definitely improved. Antutu agrees with me, so not just the placebo effect! ;-)

In saying all that, I have all the Samsung 'features' disabled, so that has probably helped me avoid the bulk of issues others are experiencing. I'm gonna hold out until the arrival of stable-ish CM11 nightlies, then I'm gone!

MrVestek · 13-11-2013 11:15AM

Anybody know of a stable KitKat ROM for this yet?

stackeye · 13-11-2013 11:22AM

Folks

I rooted by S4 when I first got it and flashed a recovery, haven't touch it since then, now I want to return it to stock and upgrade to 4.3, I have downloaded the same firmware I am currently on and flashed that (Used Triangle away before that) but my status is still showing custom and system updates says in can't update because it has been modified

Anyone else get this? I want to upgrade as I don't want to wipe and flash 4.3, just a pain setting everything up again

MrVestek · 13-11-2013 03:59PM

stackeye wrote: »

Folks

I rooted by S4 when I first got it and flashed a recovery, haven't touch it since then, now I want to return it to stock and upgrade to 4.3, I have downloaded the same firmware I am currently on and flashed that (Used Triangle away before that) but my status is still showing custom and system updates says in can't update because it has been modified

Anyone else get this? I want to upgrade as I don't want to wipe and flash 4.3, just a pain setting everything up again

As far as I know you'll need to reflash a stock recovery.

stackeye · 13-11-2013 07:22PM

Achilles wrote: »

As far as I know you'll need to reflash a stock recovery.

I thought that would be part of the stock firmware that I am flashing

evolutionqy7 · 13-11-2013 07:38PM

stackeye wrote: »

I thought that would be part of the stock firmware that I am flashing

There's more to it. Try doing it through kies. If it doesn't work you'll have to flash a 4.3 rom from xda

stackeye · 13-11-2013 08:07PM

evolutionqy7 wrote: »

There's more to it. Try doing it through kies. If it doesn't work you'll have to flash a 4.3 rom from xda

Found a solution, installed Triangle Away and reset counter again, then went back into Triangle Away and ticked the "System modified workaround" option, rebooted and now it has found an update and is installing, hopefully this isn't just the start of my problems.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=40819876

stackeye · 13-11-2013 08:40PM

stackeye wrote: »

Found a solution, installed Triangle Away and reset counter again, then went back into Triangle Away and ticked the "System modified workaround" option, rebooted and now it has found an update and is installing, hopefully this isn't just the start of my problems.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=40819876

I think I spoke too soon, the update failed when it hit Clockwordmod recovery, so now I have to figure out how to restore the stock recovery, can't find much on it at all

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