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i9500 vs. i9505 + (Vs. One) + Un-Root & Rom Support

hey guys i know this one discussed like bizllion times but mine had some personal Questions so i will be glad if you take time and answer them
i decided to buy a new S4 (Or HTC One :\ ) but i can't decide between i9500 or i9505 updated news claim that i9505 has better battery life than i9500
and here there is a better Rom Support and Communication in i9505 Section
and although there isn't any particular difference in benchmarks i9500 gets warm after some gaming
+i9500 officially ship here and i9505 is slightly more expensive than that so does it worth that much or not?!
+ i bought a i9500 for my dad last week and i decided to stick with my one x but after that i saw the s4 and decided to fo for it !
and i have another Q and it's that i rooted i9500 but after that i realised that i can't un-root it ( or could i ?) so i downloaded I9500XXUBMEA_I9500OJVBMEA Rom from SAMMOBILE :
1. is that the latest frimware ?!
2.i should install it via ODIN?
3.will it wipe my internal Storage ?
and also as i said before i can't decide between S4 and ONE so any of you that own them both i will be glad to hear your opinions of them both!:cyclops:
Thanks For your patient and answers !

Self destroying display? Custom FW

Hello people,
i've read much about self destroying displays with the Galaxy S4. A friend of mine had the same problem, but it was sent to samsung and they fixed it for warranty.
My S4 was built in January 2014. Are there still these problems?
I have flashed all my phones till now, but now im scared to flash the S4, because of this problem.
Would it be possible, to reset the flash counter (Triangle for example), even if the display is not working? (Phone is still working and will be detected on a computer)
Thanks people!

warranty problem about my S5

Hi everyone, I got my S5 3 months ago and I regret that I didn't read the instruction carefully.
I thought that the principle of rooting S5 was same as S3 so I have tripped the KNOX counter.
If my S5 has a focusing problem and I can guarantee that this was not cause by me (because this problem occurred once I brought) and I still go to Samsung Care, will they still fix it for me?
I am frustrated with this problem for this 3 month, please help me and sorry for my poor English bro.
P.S. I live in Hong Kong

mannok said:
Hi everyone, I got my S5 3 months ago and I regret that I didn't read the instruction carefully.
I thought that the principle of rooting S5 was same as S3 so I have tripped the KNOX counter.
If my S5 has a focusing problem and I can guarantee that this was not cause by me (because this problem occurred once I brought) and I still go to Samsung Care, will they still fix it for me?
I am frustrated with this problem for this 3 month, please help me and sorry for my poor English bro.
P.S. I live in Hong Kong
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They sould take it without a doubt.. It hardware issues.. Sooner youll taje there better. [emoji106]

S4 Reboots

My phone had been rooted for a while. Was using Lollipop RR for a while then I started getting your sim card had been removed restart.
I had a new sim card put in yesterday, had it prompt to restart a few times already.
Now I am getting just the phone rebooting with no prompt.
I've read that people have fixed it by either a certain SamMobile rom or new battery. Also it could be Knox? Or modem.l?
From people's experience does this sound like hardware fault? Or rooting phone causing it

Hi TG09, I think you're in the wrong forum. For what I can see, you have a Samsung Galaxy S4, and this is the forum for the Samsung Galaxy S 4G Model (SGH-T959V). I would gladly help you anyway, but I don't have a Samsung S4.
Hope you get your problem solve.

Can I recover my SIII NEO from death?

I was installing cm 13 on my S3 neo, but I mistakenly cleared preload. My whole data was erased, including os. When I tried to install stock ROM using Odin, it got disconnected and the screen went off. Can anyone guide me and tell how can I recover my phone or I lost it?

NxgM said:
I was installing cm 13 on my S3 neo, but I mistakenly cleared preload. My whole data was erased, including os. When I tried to install stock ROM using Odin, it got disconnected and the screen went off. Can anyone guide me and tell how can I recover my phone or I lost it?
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Did you already check in the device forum if a solution is available?
Samsung Galaxy S3 Neo
The Samsung Galaxy S3 Neo was released in April 2014, and is essentially a Samsung Galaxy S3, except that it ships with Android 4.4 out of the box. The Samsung Galaxy S3 Neo features a Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 quad-core 1.4Ghz processor (1.2GHz in some regions), 2GB of RAM and 16GB internal...
forum.xda-developers.com

i found this, in the forum.
[GUIDE] How to UNBRICK Samsung Galaxy S3 Neo ( i9300i & i9301i )
The following guide will help u to unbrick your device But first please make sure that its Hard Barick (fully dead mean not turning on or nothing works except when u connect to pc it will show qualcomm) REQUIRMENTS: 1) 16 GB SD card class 10...
forum.xda-developers.com

Hello everyone, I got the same problem but the links for my model (i9301i) in the thread above are dead.
Dead as my phone. It keeps completely black when "turning on". No sound, nothing to see. But there must be something left as my computer plays the "connected" sound when plugging the phone on USB.
Can anyone help please?
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btw, is troubeshooting the wrong place for this or has the thread moved before?

jb82 said:
Hello everyone, I got the same problem but the links for my model (i9301i) in the thread above are dead.
Dead as my phone. It keeps completely black when "turning on". No sound, nothing to see. But there must be something left as my computer plays the "connected" sound when plugging the phone on USB.
Can anyone help please?
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btw, is troubeshooting the wrong place for this or has the thread moved before?
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For i9301i this is the link:
File on MEGA
mega.nz