Hey There. I just received my Sprint Galaxy S4 yesterday, and I am in love with it. It is everything I loved about the Galaxy S3 and more, especially these neat new features with the air gestures and such. Unfortunately, my International S3 was one of the phones whose motherboard bricked after 6 months, they called it "the Sudden Death syndrome" for the S3.....Now that I've got my hands on the S4, I would like to be able to change the entire language of the phone (not just texting) to French, but I am only allowed to change it to Spanish, Vietnamese, Chinese, Korean....
Is there a way, without rooting, to get more languages onto this device while keeping my warranty in tact?
Any and all help would be really appreciated.
Thanks!
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Hello guys. I am new to this forum (reading a lot, but not writing)
Today I got my S4 i9500 and I am very happy with it. I got my Huawei 8800 pro for 3 years, so you are understand, that I am not a fan of changing my mobiles every year But I am really like to read about changes in mobile world and, of course, reading this forum So I got some questions, that little bit bothering me:
1) I am from Lithuania, Europe and I am thinking of updating to 4.3. Read, that region does not really meter, but would like to confirm this information for i9500.
2) Played some games, almost everything running smoothly, but, for example, in game "Dump ways", when there are level, when need to tap to kill bees, when I got 4 bees on screen, it is getting notable lags, so it is really strange for me, that in such game I am getting lags.
3) I am got 1 year international warranty, so I would not like to loose it, so for a year or maybe half, I am not planning to root my device. So I would like to ask, if rooting your device is boosting it, that "medium use" user can definitely notice changes?
Thank you in advance for answers and sorry, if questions are very "noob like" for you
P.S : Delete please this post, moved to another post.
Hi guys and gals,
I have the Note 4 N910K in the UK on 3 (three) network and i'm having no probs at all. Signal seems fine, battery is good, 4G working like a champ.
So I believe I can flash any rom from the K/L/S group of phones. I found an Asian thread (sorry can't be more specific) that has took the ROM and de-Korean'd it. That is the dialler and keyboard and other things where all international versions. Good stuff.
However, things like calendar and the weather and even S voice seem to be set on Korean rather than English, so If i have a widget with weather info it will be in symbol form. Even if I remove calendar and grab it from the store it comes back with symbols.
It's the Exynos version, I got it really cheap for £350 so i'll be gutted if I have to give it back.
Is there anything I can do? I'm good with computers and basic coding. Never really dealt with .tar files before. How can I get my ROM looking more international? I've got a GPE M8 here and i'm starting to think it might be better to stick with that
Help?
I know it's an old post, and I hope you already found the answer. But if you don't. You can use any custom rom for N910S or N910C series, all you need to make it work is just flash N910K boot image. And it would be work like a charm.
Hello,
I just bought a N910K for really cheap as well, is there a tutorial somewhere to be able to boot any custom (or even standard) N910C rom ?
Thanks a lot
Greetings. Not sure if my question belongs here or under Development. I’ll post here first and see how it goes.
My question is this: Is it possible to revert from 5.0.1 to 4.3?
Long-winded background:
I bought an S4 about 2 years ago brand new. Loved the phone. I rooted it that day and I had full control over exactly how it was setup. I never felt the need to run anything but stock ROM. But I’ve flashed countless ROMs on other phones I’ve owned over the years. I’ve rooted probably 4 or 5 different phones – some easier than others. And I’ve performed jailbreak on iPhone and iPad. In summary, I’m not a total rookie to this kind of thing.
My original S4 took a swim when I had to jump into a pool to rescue my 2 year old, who fell into the deep end. The phone was in my pants pocket. The chlorine in the pool really did a number to the internal circuitry (not a huge surprise), and it's trashed. I liked my original S4 so much that I decided to just buy another one. Three days ago, I picked up a used S4, but it’s in EXCELLENT condition – looks brand new.
When I got home after purchasing the replacement S4, I realized that, beginning with Android 4.4, text wrap/reflow is gone. My phone is running 5.0.1. I found that Opera will still reflow text, but I’m not a big fan of Opera. To each his own, and Opera is not my own. I prefer Boat, Chrome, or Firefox. And none of those will wrap/reflow text.
This is a big deal for me, for what I do with my phone. I am pretty much willing to do whatever it takes to get back to 4.3 to enable this feature.
So, does anyone know a) if it’s even possible, b) how to do it?
Thanks in advance for any helpful advice/suggestions.
Hey everyone, i have been an apple fan for quite some time now (literally my whole life)! All my phones are iPhones, all my products are apple! I have become a complete Apple enthusiast. However, after a simple 20 minutes, playing with samsung galaxy s6 edge+, i completely fell in love with the design and went into sprint to trade my iPhone for an Edge+! I been using the Edge+ for about a month now and i have no regrets to be honest, i simply love it.
Now my curious question which surely has been answered numerous of time, what is the purpose of root on android devices? I understand that for IOS jailbreak offered access to manipulate certain features of the phone that were not intended otherwise. However, android offer customization from the start. So why else would i need to root my android device?
The only reasons i want to get root from the little bit of research ive done is to obtain more languages and remove bloatware. I want to install French and German languages for my phone (I'm studying both languages), as well as remove all the infamous bloatware the Samsung phones have. What rom would i need to be able to do both those things?
Also any other things i should get for my phone when rooting? Any help is appreciated! Help my Android switch journey become a fulfilled dream lol
I rooted my first phone an Samsung Galaxy S2 just because i didn't liked the audio qualtity when using headphones. There are still great apps like "viper4android" for this purpose. Then to remove ads. I still haven't rooted my S6 edge plus and the ads are driving me crazy.
After rooting you can rewrite your whole system with a different Rom & Kernel. It always feels like as if you have a new phone. Rooting is fun if you know what you are doing.
With root you can do a lot of things. Like installs new roms, kernels, audio "hacks"/tweaks and generally tweak almost everything. However you need knowledge for this are it comes with risks. If this phone is your primary phone I will suggest you to not root alter it in any way unless it's something really important. Ofc you can buy another cheaper phone and your secondary experimental phone but this will cost ofc. If you still want to proceed read guides. Read a lot. Read guides here on XDA and everywhere else. Rooting and flashing comes always with various risks.
You can disable bloatware without having root. Take a look: http://forum.xda-developers.com/note5/general/guide-bloating-touchwizzing-note-5-t3184563
That is a great idea, however my main reason for rooting is adding more language features for my phone. I want to be able to convert my phone from french to german to any other language i see fit. I would still need to root the phone unless there is another way for me to do that?
JonathanAV95 said:
That is a great idea, however my main reason for rooting is adding more language features for my phone. I want to be able to convert my phone from french to german to any other language i see fit. I would still need to root the phone unless there is another way for me to do that?
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For that you dont need rooting. Simply go to settings -> language and input -> at language choose which one you want and the device will simply start using that language.
Hey guys, I haven't been on XDA for years but I'm really in the need of some help... I wounder if you guys have some solutions!
I used to have a Sony SP, the thing broke and I decided to look for a replacement. Buying a new phone wasn't in my budget so I went and looked for a Samsung S4 that had a broken screen, bought the replacement OLED (I think it's an oled display), and took it to a technician to repair it. It was a good buy but little did I know that fixing the hardware on the device will disable my ability to update it! I've wanted to stay stock and not flashing any ROMs on it because I just want a phone that works. I don't want the hassle of having to worry about the latest firmware, and flashing new kernels, I just want a laid back experience. My phone was already rooted when I got it, in fact I had the SuperSU app already installed (which I thought was pretty weird but I didn't think much of it), everything else is stock. Is there any options so that I can update my device that don't require any flashing on my PC?
I have another phone with the same issue, my mothers Samsung S3. Full story, I live in Venezuela and smartphones here are extremely expensive, so obviously if something happens to them you much rather repair it then buying a new one because it's unthinkable to afford one, besides a Samsung S3 is still a good device. So one day the phones screen starts fading black, and it stops accepting touch input, we had to replace the digitizer (Touch Screen), and it functioned like normal! Problem is we needed to restore the device because it was getting a bit bogged down, low and behold, same issue as my Samsung S4. Now I can live without having my firmware updates, but I'd really like to at least help my mom get hers sorted out!
I want to thank everyone who took the time to read this, and that can help me fix my devices!
The reason you can't update your S4 is because you're rooted.
As for the S3, maybe there aren't any updates available.
Samsung stopped updating the S4 like two years ago at Android 5.0 and I don't think the S3 ever got Lollipop.
I'm also pretty sure that replacing a screen won't magically prevent your phone from receiving updates; The restore may have caused that.