I read a few articles saying that Google has announced 4.4 will be coming to the S4 GE shortly after the Nexus 5 releases/ships.
Is it likely that I'll be able to install this ROM on my regular I9505XXUBMGA?
Also what are your thoughts on 4.4 coming to the S4?
Still waiting for 4.3. in other words 6-12 months hopefully.
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synthecypher said:
I read a few articles saying that Google has announced 4.4 will be coming to the S4 GE shortly after the Nexus 5 releases/ships.
Is it likely that I'll be able to install this ROM on my regular I9505XXUBMGA?
Also what are your thoughts on 4.4 coming to the S4?
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You can install GE firmware on the i9505 as it's the same hardware. HTC said they'll have 4.4 on the One GE in 15 days, so I assume the same goes for the S4. The touchwiz version will most likely come after the S5 is released.
thing 2015 ;; 2016 :cyclops:
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You can install GE firmware on the i9505 as it's the same hardware. HTC said they'll have 4.4 on the One GE in 15 days, so I assume the same goes for the S4. The touchwiz version will most likely come after the S5 is released.
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Awesome will definitely be flashing the GE 4.4 as soon as someone rips and uploads it then.
Most likely once their done updating their current devices to 4.3 you can expect 4.4 next.. i know HTC came out today and announce it will have 4.4 on their GPE in a few weeks and Sense roms by the end of January
Soon hopefully. I'm on 4.3 with Orange/EE UK. No root or rom flashing etc. They were quick
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Soon hopefully. I'm on 4.3 with Orange/EE UK. No root or rom flashing etc. They were quick
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I'm on EE with a Galaxy S4 in the UK and Kies isn't rolling the update out yet....not for me anyway!
GPE edition hopefully soon. HTC have said Sense will be updated within 90 days. Hopefully Samsung make an announcement in regards to official 4.4 TouchWiz edition.
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Can you flash the GE rom to a non GE phone? Like the regular international i9505?
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Can you flash the GE rom to a non GE phone? Like the regular international i9505?
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yes as long as its made for the i9505 (from its forums)
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GPE edition hopefully soon. HTC have said Sense will be updated within 90 days. Hopefully Samsung make an announcement in regards to official 4.4 TouchWiz edition.
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4.3 was rolled out via ota for nexus devices at July 24. Two weeks after it was rolled out for GPE devices. Then after less than 3 months the touchwiz 4.3 update came in.
Samsung rarely anounces time frames for their updates but if we follow the pattern above, the GPE 4.4 update should come in 2-3 weeks and the tw version in 3-4months.
In the meantime you could flash your favorite custom AOSP based rom like CM (should come very soon as the nexus 4 already got a booting 4.4 version) to satisfy your kitkat cravings while waiting for the official update.
Now let's play the waiting game and see who gets to make the first kitkat build for the s4
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Perhaps Samsung will release 4.4 without a new flagship device. It depends on the objectives of the company.
But for 2014 April or March the S5 is due... we only have 2 months left in 2013.
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Some reports say S5 will be announced in January so all of Samsung's efforts are probably going into polishing the 4.4 experience for that.
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Soon hopefully. I'm on 4.3 with Orange/EE UK. No root or rom flashing etc. They were quick
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EE have not got 4.3 yet
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Hello... first time poster here... if i install CM9 ( when stable is released), will i still be able to receive OTA updates..?? Im so interested in a more stock android experience, but i also want to keep OTA updates. Currently i am rooted but havent flashed a rom or nothing, and i still get the OTA updates. Thanks in advance to anyone that answers.
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No and with all the **** going on with Apple right now you want to avoid an OTA as much as possible.
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CM will incorporate things like updated radios, but many updates won't apply to your version....
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Well how about, lets say the jelly bean update or security updates specifically for ATT model.... will those updates go through??
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Well how about, lets say the jelly bean update or security updates specifically for ATT model.... will those updates go through??
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Short answer: no. If you're running CM you're on a completely different build than the version of Android/Touchwiz that ships on the device.
Longer answer: Both CM and the build that ships with the device are obviously both derived from the same source: Google's Android. So if Google fixes security problems in Android, then theoretically the CM guys should be packaging those into the next update of CM. If there is a security flaw specifically in the AT&T version of the phone, then it was probably caused by something custom that AT&T built into Android, in which case you won't get that update - but you wouldn't need it because you wouldn't have had the custom code that caused the flaw in the first place. Does that make sense?
Like eagle said, when on a custom ROM you are on your own and you don'T depend on Samsung or your carrier for updates, you depend on the developpers of the ROM. So you will probably get JB faster with CyanogenMod than with Samsung so it doesn't matter.
Any word on when the official JB 4.2 will be released on Galaxy Tab 2 10.1
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Considering Samsung just recently released 4.1 to this device? And NO other non-Nexus devices are running 4.2 OEM? And their focus seems to be on the Note? Probably never.
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Yeah, I don't see this happening soon.. Or ever... Sadly. We will always have Par-, I mean, custom roms, I mean. LOL.
Yeah, you wil not get 4.2 by official way... but you have roms
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Any word on when the official JB 4.2 will be released on Galaxy Tab 2 10.1
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Steve
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Probably April / May for official. Expect test releases March / April. Without a Samsung release , the CM roms will never fully function on 4.2
Hi, I have an AT&T S4 running 4.3 that was leaked a month ago or less. I saw today that Google officially released 4.3 for the GE S4 so I thought I would see talk about it here. Now that I'm looking I don't really see any stock 4.3 ROM's anymore with the exception of a few custom 4.3 ROMs like CM.
Where they pulled?
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Hi, I have an AT&T S4 running 4.3 that was leaked a month ago or less. I saw today that Google officially released 4.3 for the GE S4 so I thought I would see talk about it here. Now that I'm looking I don't really see any stock 4.3 ROM's anymore with the exception of a few custom 4.3 ROMs like CM.
Where they pulled?
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well if google JUST officially released it, you cant expect it to be ported just right after....
Yeah but I at least expected to see some talk about it. Also can't find the original 4.3 thread where you would think there would be recent discussion in there bumping it to the to in the development forum.
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touchwiz stuff still? sticking with CM 10.2 then lol
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And Samsung requested removal of the leaked firmware so whatever is out there is what's out there for now...give it some time.
So Samsung is working on 4.3 for the non Google edition S4s?
I hope the S4 Active gets it..
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Hi to all...
Before I have make new thread I was explore web and didnt find correct answer...
Anyone know when will come over Kies android 4.3 for SGS4???
Thnx
i would say about october-november
Thnx guys I was think that will come soon because they release 4.3 for google play edition devices
That is too away OMG
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i think, sgs4 can miss 4.3 and get 5.0
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Not really, I assume you had the idea from S3 getting 4.3 instead of 4.2.
S3 skipped 4.2 because 4.3 was already released, and Samsung didn't have time to make both 4.2 and 4.3 roms.
Sorry for the off-topic.
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Hello,
I think it will be December......
Personal guess: we will see a leaked ROM around start-mid October.
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IMHO if you want to feel how it taste 4.3 go directly to any modding thread and flash one the roms already available (after a nandroid backup), they are performing quite well and can be used as daily driver. Then, if you miss too much TW you can recover your nandroid and wait for Samsung to realese a 4.3 rom.
anyone have any details on what we can expect on the new firmware?
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anyone have any details on what we can expect on the new firmware?
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Look on the Nexus 4 thread for whats to come to us or check out the GE S4 Edition. They allready have it.
Hello. Quick question. I got my Galaxy S4 from at&t and removed the stock TouchWiz ROM and put in the official Google Edition Android 4.3 ROM from the Galaxy S4 i9505G (I believe that model is the Google Play edition S4). I just wanted to know since I have the official Google Edition stock ROM on my at&t Galaxy S4, will I get the update for 4.4 KitKat? Please let me know if a question I am asking is already out in the forms. Other than that, let me know with an answer to this question.
The official 4.3 ota isnt out yet for our we have a long way to go unless someone delevops it
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I believe the OTA wouldn't work, or may brick your device. I'd wait for someone to build it so it doesn't try and replace your bootloader or anything
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No. Do not take the official 4.4 update. It may brick your phone. Wait for the devs to make a cwm flashable ROM and then flash that.
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The stock OTA in the GPE rom shouldn't even work on our SGH-1337 devices, and if it somehow did manage to work it would probably soft-brick the device. Just wait until 4.4 builds come out for custom roms, it'll probably take a couple months to see a stable release but it'll be worth the wait. On a side note, there is a thread laying around here somewhere with some of the 4.4 apps ripped off a Nexus 5 that will run and function correctly on the 4.2.2 - 4.3.1 builds. I'm using the 4.4 keyboard and I find it a lot more accurate with swipe. :good:
Alright. Now I know. I will definitely wait for the ROMs then.
Thank you so much everyone for answering my question.