[Q] factory reset after 4.3 update? - Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I got my S4 i9505 yesterday and it came with 4.2.2 so today I flashed 4.3 XXUEMJ5 using odin 3.09. First thing I noticed is that all apps and settings were there and if I recall correctly every time I flashed a rom on my S1 it would do a full wipe.
So now I'm confused if I should do a factory reset or wipe data/cache/whatever from recovery?
Also, is 4.3 battery life better? I've seen some threads here of people complaining on battery life and others are suggesting to turn off wifi scanning and I have no idea what that is.

Anyone? I'm not willing to wipe data and cache just to try if it's not going to change anything.

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[Q] Battery life on 9500 after OTA firmware upgrade

Hi,
I got S4 I9500 on 27th April and the battery was fine and was draining about 4-8 % during night and that seemed normal. Then I did an OTA firmware update to Android 4.2.2 XXUAMDE and since then the phone started draining around 15 % during nights and in comparison it drained a lot during standby. I decided to do a factory reset and now it seems fine. I read in several forum that OTA update messes up the battery life and we have to do a factory reset to fix that. Is there any way to avoid a factory restore every time I do an OTA update or is there any way to update it by connecting it to a PC like samsung KIES, does that prevent such issues ? I'm coming back to android after using apple for 2 years, so I'm kind of a noob
Thank you !
I have a 9505, my battery life reduced a lot too when I updated to ME2. Such a disappointment. I did a factory reset but it didn't fix my problem, though I had flashed back to stock firmware after playing with root.
Is there a out of the box rom without the update that I could try flashing?

HELP!

ok so i was trying to get LTE option back on my phone and flashed the stock rom twice. didnt work. thought it could need a factory reset. didnt fix it. tried flashing stock another 2 times. still no LTE.
flashed TWRP recovery did a wipe inc system, data and cache. flashed stock in odin.
now wont boot up. gets stuck at the S4 logo.
trying again to flash the stock rom in odin will post soon if it starts up. but if not what do I do?
also how come i couldnt get LTE back in mobile networks?
only had the phone for 2 days LOL
came from the s2 and s3 so have a fair bit of knowledge about these.
thanks
EDIT: NOPE still wont boot
have you tried to wipe data/factory reset after odin i suppose it won't if not also try a Rom with another build either a complete stock on odin or a pre rooted one
ok so after a hour of playing with it i fixed it. I used wipe data factory reset and it just booted up lol.
back on omega rom now

Strange Behaviors

So I had been running the unnofficial 5.0.2 CM lollipop on my phone for a while when I finally decided I would do a full wipe and flash the latest version of it (1/26). Prior to the full wipe, the phone had been running fine. But since 1/26, it started depleting battery rapidly and it had tons of input lag. So... I wiped again and went back to what I previously had... only, my problems did not go away. So then I decided I would wipe and go back to CM11. Now, it is a little better, but still is having odd lag / behavioral issues.
My question is this.... I did several full wipes. This doesnt seem to be resolving my issues. I am guessing that wipes dont really get rid of strange behavior. Is there another step? I tried the "repair" option in TWRP but that didnt help much. I am using the latest TWRP. Should I odin a factory ROM then re-root everything? If so, does knox become removable, or am I stuck with it?

wifi is always on android 5.0 N9005

it has been a few months that i upgrade my n9005 to android 5.0 via odin. i have notice that the wifi is always on shown on batt stats page there i already unticked google scanning it still appears so i did an factory reset and untick again, but then after few weeks the problem came again showing wifi always on and the i did another factory reset using recovery mode, same thing happened after a few weeks its starting again. anyone can help me?

Note 3 lolipop problem

Hi to everyone,
I have some problems with my SM-N9005 I will explain everything from beginning what I did so you can have a clear picture. I had stock 4.4.2 rom when I bought my phone but I am a app freak so I had to do root actually my friend did it using odin because I am not so good with android knowledge. That was almost 2 years ago and with 4.4.2 I had no problems. Using camera, recording, wifi everything worked great. I have fastest class San Disk 64 GB memory card and I set camera video to save directly on it and it worked without any problems. This past month my phone started to be slow because of 2 years junk and using so I decided to put latest custom rom (I think 5.1.x something) but my friend was afraid if we dont put good rom that we will brick my phone so he told me to do a reset factory defaults and the phone will be unrooted and then go to software update option and update it to 5.0. I couldn't do that because it reported error phone changed or something like it was rooted but it was not. Lucky for me before root we did cwm backup of my phone so my friend restored backup and then we tried again software update again but still same error phone is changed (I was hundred precent sure that phone is unrooted but still no luck). Then we decided to install Kies and do firmware upgrade from options tab and it worked. It was 1.3 Gb update and kies showed that it is 5.0 and last firmware version for note 3. So I am using phone for few days now but I noticed few problems. Everytime I restart phone it forgets all wifi passwords and also when I come home I meen when I change ruter same story. Today I wanted to talk a picture and when I took a picture and go to gallery to see it (from camera up left corner see last image) phone restarted and when I wanted to record a video it said recording failed and then it restarts every time.Everything else is working great, phone is fast,maybe battery drains faster than on 4.4.2 but it is not a big problem for me. Sorry for my english if I have some mistakes. Can you help me please with these 2 issues?
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Anyone please?
Did you try with a factory reset ?https://www.androidpit.com/factory-reset-note-3
You could possibly try flashing the stock android 5.0 with odin, that should be the best way of making sure everything is installed properly unless anyone thinks that would be a bad idea.
Chris
I tried factory reset and same story, ok I will try with odin I will go to see my friend in few days and then I will post results
So I solved it by:
Using Odin 3.11.1
I have already tried Factory reset, wipe cache, wipe dalvik, flashed the latest stock Lolipop or older lollipop with ODin and nothing solved the problem.
So I tried to flash the latest stock lolipop with Odin and marking checked (Auto Reboot , F. Reset Time , Phone EFS clear, Phone Bootloader update).
I suspect that the Phone EFS clear did the trick. It's function is related to the modem and radio of the phone. And clearly the modem has a problem here.
I hope this will help anybody out there having this issue.
This problem happened after trying to flash lollipop using FlashFire app to reserve the root that I had in my previos Android KK 4.4.2.
Phone: Galaxy Note3 N9005 Malaysian

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