Do I need to return to stock? - AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin

I decided to root now that we have a way to return to stock and after deleting some bloatware using Titanium I have a slight issue.
When opening my gallery I get an error message saying "Samsung text to speech has stopped" I'm not sure what that has to do with viewing my photos, but it does it 2-3 times and then everything is fine.
So, do I need to return to stock to fix this if restoring via titanium doesn't work? And if so, do I need to unroot prior to returning to stock using Odin?
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WrongRom said:
I decided to root now that we have a way to return to stock and after deleting some bloatware using Titanium I have a slight issue.
When opening my gallery I get an error message saying "Samsung text to speech has stopped" I'm not sure what that has to do with viewing my photos, but it does it 2-3 times and then everything is fine.
So, do I need to return to stock to fix this if restoring via titanium doesn't work? And if so, do I need to unroot prior to returning to stock using Odin?
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Which bloatware did you delete?
I just had to re-install the stock ROM last night because I deleted some of the AT&T bloatware, specifically the AT&T Messages app.
I have since learned it's better to freeze the apps first and see if any problems pop up. After about a week of no noticeable issues you should be good to delete the app permanently.
I'm waiting for one of the dev's to post a list of apps on the AT&T S4's which are safe to delete.

Mhjeff301 said:
Which bloatware did you delete?
I just had to re-install the stock ROM last night because I deleted some of the AT&T bloatware, specifically the AT&T Messages app.
I have since learned it's better to freeze the apps first and see if any problems pop up. After about a week of no noticeable issues you should be good to delete the app permanently.
I'm waiting for one of the dev's to post a list of apps on the AT&T S4's which are safe to delete.
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I deleted almost all AT&T bloatware. What issues were you having after deleting the AT&T messages app? I have that deleted as well but so far the only issue I have is the one mentioned. I think I will flash back to stock tonight and wait for a list from the devs as well
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WrongRom said:
I deleted almost all AT&T bloatware. What issues were you having after deleting the AT&T messages app? I have that deleted as well but so far the only issue I have is the one mentioned. I think I will flash back to stock tonight and wait for a list from the devs as well
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I deleted everything included AT&T messages no issues here

WrongRom said:
I deleted almost all AT&T bloatware. What issues were you having after deleting the AT&T messages app? I have that deleted as well but so far the only issue I have is the one mentioned. I think I will flash back to stock tonight and wait for a list from the devs as well
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I would get the error message "Contacts has stopped" and when I would try and load contacts all I would get was a "Loading" circle spinning.
Also I started to get "Unfortunately, the process com.google.process.gapps has stopped".
I also was getting "text-to-speech has stopped".
Then I did a factory reset and the "Samsung setupwizard has stopped' which was putting me in a perpetual loop preventing me from getting into my phone at all.
Reloading the stock AT&T ROM was all I could do.
Just a note, after reloading the ROM you will lose root.
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hyelton said:
I deleted everything included AT&T messages no issues here
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I wonder if removing AT&T Messages without ever having launched it will work.
After deleting AT&T Messages it also removed the system app Contacts Storage 4.2.2 off my S4.
I've learned it's better to freeze apps first and if no issues pop up after a week or so and several reboots, you should be good to delete for good.

Mhjeff301 said:
Which bloatware did you delete?
I just had to re-install the stock ROM last night because I deleted some of the AT&T bloatware, specifically the AT&T Messages app.
I have since learned it's better to freeze the apps first and see if any problems pop up. After about a week of no noticeable issues you should be good to delete the app permanently.
I'm waiting for one of the dev's to post a list of apps on the AT&T S4's which are safe to delete.
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I haven't seen an "official" list yet but these two threads were very helpful in getting a lot of useless apps disabled (lists are included):
How to Remove Bloatware without Rooting
Holy mother of bloatware

WrongRom said:
I deleted almost all AT&T bloatware. What issues were you having after deleting the AT&T messages app? I have that deleted as well but so far the only issue I have is the one mentioned. I think I will flash back to stock tonight and wait for a list from the devs as well
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2263533 here is official software thread or you can use my metod post here : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2261232

Caiyenne said:
I haven't seen an "official" list yet but these two threads were very helpful in getting a lot of useless apps disabled (lists are included):
How to Remove Bloatware without Rooting
Holy mother of bloatware
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This is a spreadsheet I found in another thread which was created for the S4 international version, so it won't have the AT&T specific bloatware but at least it helps for bloatware apps that are okay to delete/remove with Root.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ApUQpspiZeBTdHotUXJ5bTQycHJLMHA1U0ROQ1NpZ1E#gid=0

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com.sec.app.MIPErrorNotifier running after restart

Another odd thing I am seeing since the new update, is every time I reboot, if I go into the task manager to see all my open applications... After about a minute or so, I notice there is an app in there that says MIPerroractivity, when I click app info it says it is an app called com.sec.app.MIPErrorNotifier. Why is this automatically open like an app in my task manager when I reboot? Any ody else seeing this?
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I see this too
Thanks for the reply. Was hoping it wasn't just me. Perhaps someone with more insight could shed some light on this.
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Same here. Not sure what this is, and if I should just freeze it using Titanium backup. Searched google and the first hit was this post
One of the subsequent posts indicates that this app existed on the S3 late last year too - http://forums.androidcentral.com/sp...ng-galaxy-s3-sprint-version-stock-rooted.html
Same here! I'm wondering if we rename it to .bak at the end if that will affect anything... anyone willing to test that lol?
Joe0113 said:
Same here! I'm wondering if we rename it to .bak at the end if that will affect anything... anyone willing to test that lol?
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I froze it using Titanium backup. No ill effects so far
QUESTION: Is everyone here running the latest KT Kernel. Bc when I reverted back to the MF9 kernel, I didn't get that anymore...
I am bone stock, haven't even rooted it yet. First time I haven't rooted a phone right out of the gate.
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Same here just updated this morning. Bone stock and not rooted. Shows up after every reboot.
I did the update myself not via ota. Did everyone else here do it that way? Or did you receive the update via ota?
Maybe its somehow related to the way sprint is rolling out the update?
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Did mine ota
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Happy I found this thread! Thought it was only me. I flashed the MF9 zip, and I'm using KT kernel.
The thing running doesn't really bother me, I'd just like to know what it's for. I kill it every time I reboot anyway
Semtronix said:
Happy I found this thread! Thought it was only me. I flashed the MF9 zip, and I'm using KT kernel.
The thing running doesn't really bother me, I'd just like to know what it's for. I kill it every time I reboot anyway
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You didnt odin the modem tar?
galaxy s4
johnfred1987 said:
You didnt odin the modem tar?
galaxy s4
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Should I have? I used Odin to get to stock MDL, then flashed the MF9 zip in recovery. Nothing else. Why would I need to flash the modem if the modem is in the OTA?
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Should I have? I used Odin to get to stock MDL, then flashed the MF9 zip in recovery. Nothing else. Why would I need to flash the modem if the modem is in the OTA?
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Did the same thing.
I also get this PITA notice.
Only thing I have been able to find so far is it appears to have something to do with "Mobile IP ERRor".
I will not claim to know what this means.
I have noticed that I have no cell service while roaming at home anymore.
Hopefully, this is because I am slightly (1/4 mile) outside of the official roaming service area.
I am hoping I can reset the phone profile once I get back into Sprint's network later today.
I am also not sure if this is related to MY upgrading to MF9 using the manual ZIP from SD card method and not waiting for the official OTA update.
I already posted that I did the ota stock non rooted and it appears for me.
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Ok, so I've been doing a little testing this AM to see if I could get to the bottom of this error.
After rebooting, locking and unlocking a ton of times I've decided its related to wifi connecting on the initial boot.
After a while I started noticing a pattern in relation to the toast message that pops up when it initially connects to wifi and the error showing up.
To confirm my theory, I removed the local wifi at my office, and on reboot, no error.
I have zero clue on how to fix the issue, but just wanted to point any devs looking into this in the right direction.
Additional notes, I'm stock, not rooted, and updated via the sdcard method.
skitzo2000 said:
Ok, so I've been doing a little testing this AM to see if I could get to the bottom of this error.
After rebooting, locking and unlocking a ton of times I've decided its related to wifi connecting on the initial boot.
After a while I started noticing a pattern in relation to the toast message that pops up when it initially connects to wifi and the error showing up.
To confirm my theory, I removed the local wifi at my office, and on reboot, no error.
I have zero clue on how to fix the issue, but just wanted to point any devs looking into this in the right direction.
Additional notes, I'm stock, not rooted, and updated via the sdcard method.
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I believe you are absolutely correct in your assumption. I can replicate this as you say. Also, I am completely stock, unrooted and gained the update via OTA.
I did crawrj mf9 update for rooted mf9 and not haveing the issues only had to clear my google account (data) check out his thread maybe there that ll help yall
galaxy s4
Has anyone totally deleted it (not freeze it, but DELETE IT) from system/apps ??

New to GS4 - Couple Questions

My new GS4 should be delivered today! I am retiring my beloved Motorola Photon but am very excited at the prospects of having the best device on the market in my hands. My question concerns all of my backed up apps and games from my rooted and modded Photon. Is it possible to restore them from my saved "Titanium Backup" files to the GS4? Is it better to download the apps again from the play store and just restore the data? Thanks for any help.
most of the apps will f/c, just download them again, and save you the trouble and time.
Thanks for the reply. I will go ahead and just download all of my apps from the play store but my main concern was more about losing the app data. Can the data be restored safely via saved Titanium Backups?
I think this thread should maybe have been posted in the Q&A forum. My bad.
You should have no problem restoring the data using TB, just make sure you don't restore any system data.
On another note, since you will be getting your phone today, I would recommend that you take both firmware updates before you root. The most recent firmware is MF9, when you receive your phone it will probably be on MDC. So goto settings my device and then select update firmware and let it upgrade to MDL, then after its upgraded have it upgrade again to receive MF9. Then you can use chainfires cf-autoroot in the development section to root it and follow his instructions to load a custom recovery. This will save you a lot of headaches in the upgrade process and get you rooted with the latest software on the phone.
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Or you could use the Helium app for your transfers. No root required! I was able to transfer all of my apps+data from my E4GT via WiFi with no force closes
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When I switched from my tmobile note 2 to the sprint gs4, I used titanium backup to restore user apps with data. Never had any issues.
Just make sure to not backup any system data/apps only user apps
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cruise350 said:
You should have no problem restoring the data using TB, just make sure you don't restore any system data.
On another note, since you will be getting your phone today, I would recommend that you take both firmware updates before you root. The most recent firmware is MF9, when you receive your phone it will probably be on MDC. So goto settings my device and then select update firmware and let it upgrade to MDL, then after its upgraded have it upgrade again to receive MF9. Then you can use chainfires cf-autoroot in the development section to root it and follow his instructions to load a custom recovery. This will save you a lot of headaches in the upgrade process and get you rooted with the latest software on the phone.
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cruise, that is very helpful. Thanks for your reply and the others too!
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jbb2388 said:
My new GS4 should be delivered today! I am retiring my beloved Motorola Photon but am very excited at the prospects of having the best device on the market in my hands. My question concerns all of my backed up apps and games from my rooted and modded Photon. Is it possible to restore them from my saved "Titanium Backup" files to the GS4? Is it better to download the apps again from the play store and just restore the data? Thanks for any help.
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Enjoy the S4. :good:
I got the Photon right when it came out and someone here in our office still has one. It really shined in the short span it was one of the top devices but crazy how much of an improvement the S4 is. First thing I always notice is how much better the screen is and how much thinner the device is. Not to mention moving from GB to JB is huge.
CCallahan said:
Enjoy the S4. :good:
I got the Photon right when it came out and someone here in our office still has one. It really shined in the short span it was one of the top devices but crazy how much of an improvement the S4 is. First thing I always notice is how much better the screen is and how much thinner the device is. Not to mention moving from GB to JB is huge.
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Thanks CC. Yeah, the Photon was a great phone. Still is. Was Sprint's top device when I ordered it. I had mine rooted, overclocked and modded almost from day one and have had a custom CM10 JB rom(Thanx jokersax) on it for most of the time I've had it so I'm very familiar with JB. I'm really excited for the S4 though. Cant wait to get my hands on it. Hopefully today! First thing I'll do after I activate it will be to update the firmware to MF9. Then I'll have to figure out how to root it. Then I have no idea what I'll do as far as kernels/recoveries/roms yet. Have lots of reading to do. :silly:
jbb2388 said:
Thanks CC. Yeah, the Photon was a great phone. Still is. Was Sprint's top device when I ordered it. I had mine rooted, overclocked and modded almost from day one and have had a custom CM10 JB rom(Thanx jokersax) on it for most of the time I've had it so I'm very familiar with JB. I'm really excited for the S4 though. Cant wait to get my hands on it. Hopefully today! First thing I'll do after I activate it will be to update the firmware to MF9. Then I'll have to figure out how to root it. Then I have no idea what I'll do as far as kernels/recoveries/roms yet. Have lots of reading to do. :silly:
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Try running it with rooted stock for awhile. Maybe even with a custom launcher & kernel. You might be pleasantly surprised at how well it runs. Plus you can play with all the fancy stuff on the phone and see what you like and don't like.
CF Autoroot has been confirmed working for MF9: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2291827
CCallahan said:
Try running it with rooted stock for awhile. Maybe even with a custom launcher & kernel. You might be pleasantly surprised at how well it runs. Plus you can play with all the fancy stuff on the phone and see what you like and don't like.
CF Autoroot has been confirmed working for MF9: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2291827
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Thats what I'm gonna do for a while yeah. Thanks for the link.
Well, I got my new GS4 on Friday finally! This thing is really nice. The screen is amazing. Hard to believe how much better all of my photos look! Anyway, what I'm looking for is advice on what to do next. I just rooted it with CF Auto Root (Thanks Chainfire) and it went very smoothly. Kernels, custom recoveries so I can run a nandroid backup? What have you done??
I just upgraded from a photon...I restored about 80 apps+data, text messages and call log. I actually didnt have a single issue. Titanium rocks.
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First I rooted and flashed twrp, then flashed a stock based rom calked intrinsic. Stock kernel. Also uninstalled a bunch more stock apps with ti. I'm really digging everything about touchwiz. Everything is so slick. I even love the Samsung keyboard, how about you?
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[Q] Is it safe to uninstall AT&T bloatware on rooted I337UCUAMF3?

Given that there's no way to reflash the factory image, is it still safe to remove all the AT&T bloat using Titanium Backup? Right now I have all the AT&T bloatware frozen and it doesn't impact anything, but I just want to if it'll change if I completely uninstall the AT&T programs i.e. My Locker, Blurb Checkout, etc. Would this impact my ability to receive firmware updates or unroot and reset the handset? I should mention I'm probably going to be selling the phone when the Nexus 5 comes out so I still want to be able to unroot and factory reset (as long as it can reset, it doesn't bother me if the AT&T bloatware is gone).
I guess that depends on what you mean by "safe."
I removed almost all of the AT&T stuff except for the update service and the hotspot app, and I know I'll never miss them even without a recovery option.
If you need a recovery option, then probably best to not remove anything and use Safestrap to experiment with other roms.
Don't delete it, freeze it. That way if you mess something up you can defrost it.
If your on MF3 I wouldn't touch anything and just use safestrap.
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There is always risk.
I learned the hard way... I touched too much stuff with Tibu on my stock ROM and it doesn't even work anymore. I can't do anything with it... luckily I have safestrap still until they release an mf3 factory image for Odin or kies I can't do anything with my stock ROM.
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jd1639 said:
Don't delete it, freeze it. That way if you mess something up you can defrost it.
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This
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I removed all att and samsung bloat except for watch on and several services. We should put a list together of safe package to remove.
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re: safe to remove bloatware
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I learned the hard way... I touched too much stuff with Tibu on my stock ROM and it doesn't even work anymore. I can't do anything with it... luckily I have safestrap still until they release an mf3 factory image for Odin or kies I can't do anything with my stock ROM.
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About the time you posted this last night I was freezing apps. Apparently too many. Phone will not boot past the at&t logo now. I can still boot into my custom rom slot 1 so I'm not at a total loss, but would really like to know if there is anyway to replace/defrost those frozen apps on the stock ROM via the ADB terminal running on my custom ROM. Seems like you could just copy and overwrite the package files on the stock ROM... Which leads me to my ultimate question of what does TiBackup Freeze option actually do? Uninstalling would remove the app and files from the system completely so since they are still present it seems there would be some sort of a control file that you could edit manually to defrost the app(s) in question.
Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated.
I've read a few times that best buy can do a factory restore, yet every time someone says they are going to ask their "friend" at best buy for the method/procedure for the restore they drop off the grid... Is this a possibility?
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jd1639 said:
Don't delete it, freeze it. That way if you mess something up you can defrost it.
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As long as you don't reboot it =)
Can you defrost it if you have rebooted and now you can't get past the at&t boot logo?
colbur87 said:
I removed all att and samsung bloat except for watch on and several services. We should put a list together of safe package to remove.
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I don't recall the urls but there are already a few in-depth lists of safe bloatware to remove from our phones..
@xda_n I'm not too sure I'm still researching on this, but haven't really been actively looking for it. Not in a rush really because I'm not going to sell my phone or anything so I'm just going to wait on Samsung to release the mf3 file via Odin or kies. I'm just using vision-x and shostock which is giving me better battery and performance than stock and still have stock feel so I'm not in too much of a rush to fix my stock ROM yet. My stock ROM would boot but it would say com.android. something and it'll freeze. I accidently tried to do a factory reset after deleting all the apps via tibu so I couldn't recover any files I saved and froze so i learned my lesson and don't want to deal with best buy right now.
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MD5.tar!!!
I'm not sure if you guys found this thread or not, but I'm so thankful, I decided to pay it forward and share it. PERFECTO.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2502003

[Q] How do I NOT update to Kit Kat

Total Noob here as evident in this being my first post, but googling about how to NOT installl this Kit Kat update that has popped up on my Verizon Note 3 today has brought me here.
Is there any way I can disable this update from happening? I have heard great things about rooting and custom ROMS, and have heard that updating may jeopardize this.
So can I turn off Verizon's ability to update my phone? I delayed this, but my Note 3 wants to install the files it downloaded at 2 a.m.
Can someone give me a crash course to help me, and/or a quick way to prevent this?
Many Thanks.
Step 1 - Root your phone
hugenut said:
Total Noob here as evident in this being my first post, but googling about how to NOT installl this Kit Kat update that has popped up on my Verizon Note 3 today has brought me here.
Is there any way I can disable this update from happening? I have heard great things about rooting and custom ROMS, and have heard that updating may jeopardize this.
So can I turn off Verizon's ability to update my phone? I delayed this, but my Note 3 wants to install the files it downloaded at 2 a.m.
Can someone give me a crash course to help me, and/or a quick way to prevent this?
Many Thanks.
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This method has worked for me twice. Latest was today:
youtube.com/watch?v=ukajWoxI3Tg&index=12&list=PLSQtCJEhU8pillzM7CZlSqFwApt7tKeWV
SKIP ALL THE STUFF ABOUT ODIN AND FLASHING FIRMWARE!!!! If you are stock JB, you don't need to do this part.
Then to get all the Chinese stuff off your phone, follow this tutorial:
youtube.com/watch?v=L5ebYM9CDkI&index=13&list=PLSQtCJEhU8pillzM7CZlSqFwApt7tKeWV
Finally, Install titanium backup, and freeze the program that is trying to force and over the air update. I came to the forum looking for the name of that file. Best I can find so far is: LocalFOTA v2_1308_1_1 -- but there my be others. Come back to the forum when you're rooted and search for it.
Best of luck!
hugenut said:
Total Noob here as evident in this being my first post, but googling about how to NOT installl this Kit Kat update that has popped up on my Verizon Note 3 today has brought me here.
Is there any way I can disable this update from happening? I have heard great things about rooting and custom ROMS, and have heard that updating may jeopardize this.
So can I turn off Verizon's ability to update my phone? I delayed this, but my Note 3 wants to install the files it downloaded at 2 a.m.
Can someone give me a crash course to help me, and/or a quick way to prevent this?
Many Thanks.
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The best way to not update it, is to not update it. It isn't automatic. But after updating mine, my phone is better than ever. Noticeably faster transitions & animations, and great battery. Everything works better with 4.4.2 than it did with 4.3.
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BlastTyrantKM said:
The best way to not update it, is to not update it. It isn't automatic. But after updating mine, my phone is better than ever. Noticeably faster transitions & animations, and great battery. Everything works better with 4.4.2 than it did with 4.3.
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Im having issues with gmail. With 4.3, if you zoomed and tapped it automatically fit to screen......now it doesnt line wrap.......cant find a single way to fix, ergo my visit here to xda Are you having any issues with line wrap since updating? I know with the browser google purposely turned that off with their webview, but i didnt know that extended to gmail
wickets said:
Im having issues with gmail. With 4.3, if you zoomed and tapped it automatically fit to screen......now it doesnt line wrap.......cant find a single way to fix, ergo my visit here to xda Are you having any issues with line wrap since updating? I know with the browser google purposely turned that off with their webview, but i didnt know that extended to gmail
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I don't use Gmail, so I don't know if it's working or not. I'm using Mailbox and it does have that feature and it works. Even has a multi-level zoom w/ text wrapping.
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BlastTyrantKM said:
I don't use Gmail, so I don't know if it's working or not. I'm using Mailbox and it does have that feature and it works. Even has a multi-level zoom w/ text wrapping.
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Yes, mailbox is fantastic and it does have the autofit feature........unfortunately its gmail only so if you have an outlook account etc you cant use it
thanks for the input....much appreciated
hugenut said:
Total Noob here as evident in this being my first post, but googling about how to NOT installl this Kit Kat update that has popped up on my Verizon Note 3 today has brought me here.
Is there any way I can disable this update from happening? I have heard great things about rooting and custom ROMS, and have heard that updating may jeopardize this.
So can I turn off Verizon's ability to update my phone? I delayed this, but my Note 3 wants to install the files it downloaded at 2 a.m.
Can someone give me a crash course to help me, and/or a quick way to prevent this?
Many Thanks.
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The only way you can really stop it is to root and delete a file called sdm 1.0. That is the update checker. But if you are going that far you might as well install a custom rom. There are several good kk roms available now. The biggest thing to keep in mind is that if you ever want to root, you can't take the ota. There will probably never be a root method for the ota version. The leaked nc2 build is kk that is rooted by default and is the base for all available kk roms.
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If you need detailed instructions on rooting and upgrading, check out this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2740466
This guy is awesome and has the best instructional threads for those in need
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Tidewater said:
The only way you can really stop it is to root and delete a file called sdm 1.0. That is the update checker. But if you are going that far you might as well install a custom rom. There are several good kk roms available now. The biggest thing to keep in mind is that if you ever want to root, you can't take the ota. There will probably never be a root method for the ota version. The leaked nc2 build is kk that is rooted by default and is the base for all available kk roms.
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If you need detailed instructions on rooting and upgrading, check out this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2740466
This guy is awesome and has the best instructional threads for those in need
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That worked for me... finally a fix thanks so much
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gotghost29 said:
That worked for me... finally a fix thanks so much
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You are soooo very welcome
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ContextService has stopped NE9 rerooted

I just followed the guide to flash back to NCG kernel, reroot and flash NE9 kernel. So far everything is lovely except for after a phone call I always get an error: "Unfortunately, Context Service has stopped." Any idea what this is and how to fix it?
wrongway213 said:
I just followed the guide to flash back to NCG kernel, reroot and flash NE9 kernel. So far everything is lovely except for after a phone call I always get an error: "Unfortunately, Context Service has stopped." Any idea what this is and how to fix it?
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Are you on a custom ROM, if so witch one?
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Are you on a custom ROM, if so witch one?
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No, stock ROM. Never flashed a ROM, Knox 0x0.
I believe I found a solution. I have installed Greenify, but it was disabled under my accessibility services. Apparently that's how it is set by default after downloading it, even when rooted. I turned Greenify on under Settings < Accessibility < Greenify and rebooted my phone. I made a few calls and received one and no more Context Service Errors for me. I am quite curious as to what Context Services are and why Greenify would cause those errors as I do not see any information on it relating to the S5, so if anyone has any idea why this happens, feel free to shed some light on it.I wonder also if Context Services are safe to freeze..
Problem returned with a vengeance after several reboots. Now I boot the phone sometimes and there are no errors, other times and constant FCs. Could I have somehow gotten a corrupt Context Service apk when I flashed to Stock Odin, or the NCG or NE9 kernels? Anyone know what Context Services actually is and if it's safe to freeze if there isn't a fix? I found a similar thread for someone having this issue on the At&T variant and someone replied that his Context Service apk was possibly corrupt and that he PM'd him a new one. http://forum.xda-developers.com/att-galaxy-s5/help/context-services-stopped-t2837895/post54614539 If this is something that is possible to do, I would greatly appreciate it.. I've looked both on Google and here and there seems to be very little info on Context Services, so I do not wanna freeze something that's unsafe to freeze, but these errors are killing me. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Edit: Totally removed Greenify and the problem is gone. I would love to use Greenify, but I would like to know I can do so without causing issues. Does anyone know how Greenify would cause ContextService FCs?
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i have a logcat of the issue occurring, both by itself and induced via having my girlfriend call my phone. i took this to the xposed forum first and was told it appears not to be module related. if anyone can give me any input on this, i would really appreciate it
i thought it was just me.. however stock rom works fine for me its my custom build i get the fc on.. i dont have greenify in my rom so not sure if thats the root cause or not.. i will try something and report back
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ok so clearing data/cache doesnt help.. i also deleted it and pulled one from stock base pushed and set perms with no luck either.. ill keep searching but were not the only ones with this issue..
mines a deal breaker cuz it fcs after every call as well as i cant send sms lol
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elliwigy said:
i thought it was just me.. however stock rom works fine for me its my custom build i get the fc on.. i dont have greenify in my rom so not sure if thats the root cause or not.. i will try something and report back
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ok so clearing data/cache doesnt help.. i also deleted it and pulled one from stock base pushed and set perms with no luck either.. ill keep searching but were not the only ones with this issue..
mines a deal breaker cuz it fcs after every call as well as i cant send sms lol
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i've figured out if i try to install ANY modules by wanam, the issue occurs. greenify isn't the problem, i know that much. let me know if you find any progress and i''ll do the same for you.
wrongway213 said:
i've figured out if i try to install ANY modules by wanam, the issue occurs. greenify isn't the problem, i know that much. let me know if you find any progress and i''ll do the same for you.
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i flashed back but can you by chance go to a rom it was working on? ive read somewhere that if you have it working then back it up with tibu then on new rom restore its data and it might fix it.. it doesnt work pullin from rom for some reason
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A rom it was working on? I've only ever been on stock rom in slot 1, not sure what you mean.
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A rom it was working on? I've only ever been on stock rom in slot 1, not sure what you mean.
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so its always fcd since youve got the device?
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A rom it was working on? I've only ever been on stock rom in slot 1, not sure what you mean.
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also theres a dif between stock slot and rom slot 1.. im on stock slot
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No, since I flashed back to NCG, rerooted and flashed NE9 it's been happening. I've never flashed a rom, just rooted on stock slot in safestrap
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A rom it was working on? I've only ever been on stock rom in slot 1, not sure what you mean.
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I'm not sure if this will help but from what I've read ss has a problem when using a rom slot instead of the stock slot I've seen a lot of the rom devs change the procedure from using a rom slot to using the stock slot.
http://bit.ly/1brshoa
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I'm not sure if this will help but from what I've read ss has a problem when using a rom slot instead of the stock slot I've seen a lot of the rom devs change the procedure from using a rom slot to using the stock slot.
http://bit.ly/1brshoa
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yeah i'm in stock slot, not rom slot. didn't mean to post that, but thank you anyways
Anyone know if a Nandroid backup from before I ever originally took the OTA, stock rooted NCG, would fix my problems, and more importantly, if it would trip Knox or not if I restored it via Safestrap?
I haven't read anywhere of someone trying it yet. I was wondering too good question
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Anyone know if a Nandroid backup from before I ever originally took the OTA, stock rooted NCG, would fix my problems, and more importantly, if it would trip Knox or not if I restored it via Safestrap?
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lol read the many posts about it floating around.. i restored my ne9 rom just fine many times.. nothing we can do with the vzw s5 will trip knox at this time so dont know why you even mention it lol we cant flash bootloaders
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elliwigy said:
lol read the many posts about it floating around.. i restored my ne9 rom just fine many times.. nothing we can do with the vzw s5 will trip knox at this time so dont know why you even mention it lol we cant flash bootloaders
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plenty of posts saying safestrap won't trip knox, had not heard from anyone as to what restoring a nano would do until i specifically asked this question yesterday though... you referring to a certain thread containing these many posts? because until i asked, the safestrap thread even made NO mention of nano backups as they relate to knox...
Never had that but I did get documents have stop once an it never did it again not sure what was up with that ?
Is there an actual fix for the "Unfortunately, Context Service has stopped" error? I really made a stupid mistake yesterday and froze some system apps in Titanium Backup. At first I was getting a bootloop when the OS tried to load the apps and thought I was going to have to wipe data, but I used adb push to send the entire system/app folder to my phone (got the files/folder from my wife's phone who has the same phone on same ROM - I'm 90% sure it is the rooted KOT49K/ANCG build of Verizon GS5). This adb push allowed my phone to boot entirely, but now everytime I boot the phone up, I get the Contest Service error message. So I just backed up Contest Service 2.0.3 using Titanium Backup on her phone, then put the 3 files it created onto my phone and tried using Titanium to restore Context Service 2.0.3 to my phone but to no avail. I tried restoring app only and also restoring app+ data but the restore never completes in TB (ive changed TB to INDIRECT mode too) but it doesn't fix the problem. When I start the restore, it does stop the error message from constantly appearing but only until the next reboot.
So does anyone know how I can stop from getting this error message? I have another working Verizon GS5 on the same ROM at my disposal.

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