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[Q] Galaxy S4 Active (I9295) modding?

I've looked all over the forums, but didn't find a section dedicated to the Galaxy S4 Active.
Therefore, my question sounds like this: Considering that the only major (known to me) difference from S4 I9505 to the S4 Active is the case, are S4 I9505 ROMs compatible on the S4 Active?
From looking on GSMarena, I see that the S4 Active is using the same chipset as the S4 I9505. Are there any major differences I should be aware of? Has anybody tried to install an I9505 ROM on an S4 Active and managed to do so successfully?

The camera is different in Active
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As Obagleyfreer already noted the camera is a different model which needs a different set of drivers. Also the display isn't the same - its LCD and not AMOLED. I like the LCD way more than the AMOLED but the changes make it impossible to use an i9095 rom straight away. You have to change a few parts of the system before you can use it.
In my opinion Samsung did a very stupid thing releasing that many different S4 devices in such a short time and without announcing them at the same time. Who buys a S4 active when he's bought an S4 two months before... I sincerly hope that the S4 active will gather a larger attention in the future (hopefully with the international release) because until now I couldn't find much discussion about it. I'm glad at least root was achieved

Hi,
as a proud owner of the S4 Active I was wondering why there's less attention spent on the device.
Just found the guide how to root. Seems like it's not working yet for EU devices
Regards
basediver

basediver, have a look at this thread, I successfully rooted my EU (i9295) S4A and also restored stock recovery.

VolkS7X said:
I've looked all over the forums, but didn't find a section dedicated to the Galaxy S4 Active.
Therefore, my question sounds like this: Considering that the only major (known to me) difference from S4 I9505 to the S4 Active is the case, are S4 I9505 ROMs compatible on the S4 Active?
From looking on GSMarena, I see that the S4 Active is using the same chipset as the S4 I9505. Are there any major differences I should be aware of? Has anybody tried to install an I9505 ROM on an S4 Active and managed to do so successfully?
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Yes they are very similar, but the s4 active has a completely different display and display driver. Which means it needs to have a different kernel.

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AT&T S4 to GPe S4?

Hi everyone. I love my s4 from ATT and find it to be the perfect size for display , power and battery life. However seeing ad the boatloader is so locked down I'm thinking of making the switch over to the GPe version of the s4.
Is it worth it right now or has this device now just become older and less likely to be used? Are there a lot of users of it? Can I still use a wireless charging back and a 64gb SD card? Is there root and themeing of the ROMs or just everyone stuck on aosp? I have the nexus 5 but I love my s4 a lot more.
Thanks.
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[Q] dual booting on lg g2? any plans?

excuse the question , since i searched the forum and found nothing related to the subject, but is there any dual boot option available for the lg g2?
was thinking about the possibility of running both factory rom (since im very pleased with what lg provided plus a lil tweaking of my own to suit my needs better) and a test/2nd rom (Ex. cm10.2/11/aokp.... )
people are jumping around roms and this might solve a lot of problems people are having due to bad flashes/errors/etc....
anybody around working on it? any plans of something similar?
i know i had that on my old n trust samsung s2 but i couldn't help keeping up with the latest hardware (actually sold my samsung s4 n got the G2 due to many factors. main factor was the s4 simply was an unfinished product)

+1 for Dual booting capabilities!

+1 would love this feature

i think i got way to dualboot , what the name of SDCard partition? i mean the mmcblk0pxxx etc..

Galaxy S4 i9505 vs i9500- which to choose?

Hi guys i want to buy new smartphone, I was thinking on any model s4 but i don't know which :crying: I like very good sound quality so I would buy i9500 (wolfson dac) but i9505 has better gpu (51 vs 97gflops)http://kyokojap.myweb.hinet.net/gpu_gflops/ Please help because i'm confused

*Jonny* said:
Hi guys i want to buy new smartphone, I was thinking on any model s4 but i don't know which :crying: I like very good sound quality so I would buy i9500 (wolfson dac) but i9505 has better gpu (51 vs 97gflops)http://kyokojap.myweb.hinet.net/gpu_gflops/ Please help because i'm confused
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Personally i would opt for the i9505 as it has more developers supporting it so if you want to flash a rom it's a lot easier than with a i9500
Just my opinion

11calcal said:
Personally i would opt for the i9505 as it has more developers supporting it so if you want to flash a rom it's a lot easier than with a i9500
Just my opinion
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i would definitely double this, i myself have an i9500 and i have a hard time finding mods for this international versiom, almost everything is made for the i9505

*Jonny* said:
Hi guys i want to buy new smartphone, I was thinking on any model s4 but i don't know which :crying: I like very good sound quality so I would buy i9500 (wolfson dac) but i9505 has better gpu (51 vs 97gflops)http://kyokojap.myweb.hinet.net/gpu_gflops/ Please help because i'm confused
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well it depend on your usage..and if your network got LTE why don't you try i9505..for android smartphone you don't need to worry about sound quality because they got plenty of mod that you can use.

I do not know which is better
Zaraee said:
well it depend on your usage..and if your network got LTE why don't you try i9505..for android smartphone you don't need to worry about sound quality because they got plenty of mod that you can use.
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I know but modifications are helpless if hardware is weak ( Hexagon QDSP6V4 vs wolfson dac: Confused unfortunately, I have no comparison
I have seen the number of custom rom on i9500 and in my opinion it is sufficient :Confused:

*Jonny* said:
I know but modifications are helpless if hardware is weak ( Hexagon QDSP6V4 vs wolfson dac: Confused unfortunately, I have no comparison
I have seen the number of custom rom on i9500 and in my opinion it is sufficient :Confused:
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yeah,because i never seen people compared the audio hardware to buy the smartphone..
i try google Hexagon QDSP6V4 vs wolfson dac and there are no people camparing this stuff

guys which one is jflte and jfltexx for i9505 and all roms for one of them will work in the other ...i mean same zip file can be flash in both of them withou hard brick ....thanks

I would agree with Poroto!
Go for I9505. I have the I9500 and really struggled to get a decent ROM for that. Before this, I was using thd S3 I9300 which has a very good ecosystem of custom ROMs.
Hope this helps! Cheers!
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Choose s4 i9505 for its vast ROM support. You can also easily find solutions to your problems because there are more users of i9505 than i9500

[Q] question for developers

Hi guys.
I'm new to the forum and own a galaxy s5 plus g901f. I bought the phone new from eBay an unwanted upgrade. The phone was advertised as g900f so I was fairly happy until I discovered I was stuck on touchwiz as there is no support for this modal at all. I can't tell you how much I hate touchwiz and coming from nexus its made me miss aosp even more.
I've always rooted my devices but have little knowledge of making a custom rom. I wanted to ask the clued up folks, could I use a normal s5 aosp ROM and edit it to work on the s5 plus? Would it be quite simple as its similar with a few upgrades? Or would I need to start from scratch?
Any info would be great.
Mike

Best you can do is try the S5 plus specific thread.
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