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S4 MK6 Help??

My S4 has MK6 (resulted from the 4.3 update OTA as I pulled it out of the box), rooted and TWRP installed.
Currently running Skyfall 4.4.2 ROM. Battery life seems HORRIBLE and the vibration is VERY week (with each ROM i've tried).
Also running the Zerolemon 7500mah Battery that doesn't seem to fully charge, but drains quickly.
The question is that if I take 4.4.2 from samsung mobile's site and load via Odin, will it lock up the phone from being rooted and
installing custom recovery again?
So far, I"m unhappy with the S4..... but it's my own fault for rooting and testing ROMs, I suppose..... but that's all I ever did with my
S3 with very positive results.
Suggestions and help guys???
Thanks
DSSKing

dssking said:
My S4 has MK6 (resulted from the 4.3 update OTA as I pulled it out of the box), rooted and TWRP installed.
Currently running Skyfall 4.4.2 ROM. Battery life seems HORRIBLE and the vibration is VERY week (with each ROM i've tried).
Also running the Zerolemon 7500mah Battery that doesn't seem to fully charge, but drains quickly.
The question is that if I take 4.4.2 from samsung mobile's site and load via Odin, will it lock up the phone from being rooted and
installing custom recovery again?
So far, I"m unhappy with the S4..... but it's my own fault for rooting and testing ROMs, I suppose..... but that's all I ever did with my
S3 with very positive results.
Suggestions and help guys???
Thanks
DSSKing
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The sammobile may change your bootloader, if you stay on 4.3 your bootloader will stay MK6 which means you can use a 4.4.2 rom or 4.3 rom, if you update the bootloader to NC1 you will only be able to load 4.4.2 roms. You don't mention what baseband your on so I will assume it is MK6. You may see some battery improvement going to NC1 modem (flashed through odin PC ... twice.. you will see in the instructions) I am sure there are some near stock roms out there for 4.4.2 ... Mapleleaf is close to stock. As for battery life, it depends on what you have running on the phone. I can get 2 days on mine if I don't fool around too much. urrently 2 days 4 hours 37 minutes, screen on time 1 hour 23 minutes... 40% left... I turn off all data after 10pm and don't have gps running. You can check what is using the battery with wake lock detector, maybe you have a something that is not allowing the phone to go to deep sleep.

Thank you! Valuable info! Yes, baseband is MK6...... I'll try loading the 4.4.2 from sammboile and see what happens.........
Will post results.
Any suggestions on other ROMs for our Canadian S4? I like TW ... Can't stand the look of AOSP

dssking said:
Thank you! Valuable info! Yes, baseband is MK6...... I'll try loading the 4.4.2 from sammboile and see what happens.........
Will post results.
Any suggestions on other ROMs for our Canadian S4? I like TW ... Can't stand the look of AOSP
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Try Mapleleaf .. its 4.4.2 tw pretty much stock except the kernel I have been running it for over a month now, no reboots or issues.... probably want to update your baseband to NC1, won't affect your bootloader, just modem. It is important to follow the instructions with PC odin (take off auto reboot flag) and wait for it to finish. I flashed it twice as the instructions suggest doing so.

[Q] Upgrade to latest Samsung rom before installing CM11 ?

Hello
I just bought a Galaxy S4 GT-I9505 Black Edition, and it came with Android 4.4.2 installed, knox ready.
Version: KOT49H.I9595XXUFNC4
Baseband: I9595XXUFNC4
A software upgrade is proposed by the system, and it's say that Knox 2.0 will be installed (versus 1.0 available for download)
According to sammobile, the upgrade will provide:
PDA: I9505XXUGNG8
CSC: I9505OXXGNG2
MODEM: I9505XXUGNG8​
Is it safe to do this Stock Samsung rom upgrade before installing CM11 ???
The reason why I ask is because CM roms never upgrade bootlader/Baseband, etc...
On my previous GS3 GT-I9300, I experienced weird behaviour after some CM upgrade (about 1 year later). I finally went back to stock rom, in order to get fresh firmware (BL/BB/PDA), and after I reinstalled CM11, every problems were gone !
So I would enjoy to leave Stock Rom with latest firmware on my phone !
The other reason, is because on my G Pad (V500) I updated the system from 4.2.2 to 4.4.2 before installing CM11.
Then installing TWRP and CM11 was really painfull to perform after the upgrade (all rooting procedure changed). What I discovered, of course, after the upgrade
Just to finish, I know that after CM11 installation, knox void flag will go to 0x1, which I really don't care, as I will never use Knox anyway...
Thanks for your help.
Fred

It really shouldn't make difference as you're on the 4.4.2 bootloader anyways.

Come on... Nobody here is using Cyanogenmod 11 M9 with latest firmware ?
aka upgraded Stock Rom to latest firmware before installing CM (full process: recovery and then rom) ?

Like memoryeffect said, it makes no difference
Sent from my Galaxy S4 using Tapatalk

DarkerTimes said:
Like memoryeffect said, it makes no difference
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Thanks for your feedback.
I was asking because of Knox 2.0. But it seems that any changes bring by XXUGNG8 are only on software side.
Therefore, nothing should prevent to install CM11 M10 (or any other Rom) on the S4.
Cheers
Fred

[Q] In samsung i9500,Got stuck in Firmware upgrade and odin not recognizing set

few days ago I flashed my nepalese i9500 with leaked russian lollipop firmware, later on I found that my phone got slower running with lollipop...Somewhere over internet I found that miui official rom runs better , smoother and quicker in galaxy S4. I was pretty much excited and started to flash miui official rom for S4.I got stuck while running odin in recovery mode...in the middle of the flashing process "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue came in my phone screen". I then thought of flashing my phone with official stock rom 4.2.2, but this thime odin don't recognize my set.. Guys, how can I solve this problem??? Please help me!!!

Galaxy aurora said:
few days ago I flashed my nepalese i9500 with leaked russian lollipop firmware, later on I found that my phone got slower running with lollipop...Somewhere over internet I found that miui official rom runs better , smoother and quicker in galaxy S4. I was pretty much excited and started to flash miui official rom for S4.I got stuck while running odin in recovery mode...in the middle of the flashing process "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue came in my phone screen". I then thought of flashing my phone with official stock rom 4.2.2, but this thime odin don't recognize my set.. Guys, how can I solve this problem??? Please help me!!!
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Hello
I'll have your thread moved to the Galaxy S4 Q&A subforum where your question would be better answered.
Good luck,
Quasar.

Samsung s4 5.0.1 problems

Hi
I have a Samsung S4 I9500 with 4.4.2 official,some days ago I install Android 5.0.1 official, the rom is I9500XXUHOA7 from Russia with Odin 3.09, the installation was normally I use the option AP.
But i have the next problems:
- The screen of the phone too hot on top only with normal use without playing.
- The battery lasts much less.
Is there any way to return 4.4.2 or solve these problems
Thanks

Odin it back to 4.4.2 thats what I had to do wait for 5.1 to see if it fixes up these pesky bugs.

I believed im the only with top screen hot.

dirov said:
Hi
I have a Samsung S4 I9500 with 4.4.2 official,some days ago I install Android 5.0.1 official, the rom is I9500XXUHOA7 from Russia with Odin 3.09, the installation was normally I use the option AP.
But i have the next problems:
- The screen of the phone too hot on top only with normal use without playing.
- The battery lasts much less.
Is there any way to return 4.4.2 or solve these problems
Thanks
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Check it here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2265477

Battery & Gestures
I like the lollipop update except two things battery,something I think Sammy needs to address, second problem is that the Gestures are not fully working i.e scrolling when using stock browser. I've tried both Russian and Indian firmwares both same result. Anyone notice this or anything else?
Oh! dirov if you do downgrade make a backup & bk your imei. Report back how you get on, Good Luck!

How can I return to stock firmware from CM 12.1 (Android 5.1)

Hi,
My Device is:
SM-N9005 LTE (32GB)
It was running 4.4. Kitkat and I tried to flash Android 5.0 via Odin. Everything went fine except wifi which did not turn on at all. While searching I found out that many users faced this and there isn't a best fix available yet. Probably I flashed a wrong firmware which may have caused some csc mismatch or kernel issue. I definitely needed the wifi back so i went on to try and experiment more on the device which brought me to CM 12.1 and I flashed it via TWRP. It brought back my wifi but now i miss some of my staple apps on this device especially S Pen Stylus & S health. I tried the simple method - downloading a firmware from sammobile and flashing it through Odin but it failed in Odin. Is there any way I can go back to to Stock firmware? My knox is at 0x1 but it doesn't matter much.
Thanks a lot in advance.

Redmax! said:
Hi,
My Device is:
SM-N9005 LTE (32GB)
It was running 4.4. Kitkat and I tried to flash Android 5.0 via Odin. Everything went fine except wifi which did not turn on at all. While searching I found out that many users faced this and there isn't a best fix available yet. Probably I flashed a wrong firmware which may have caused some csc mismatch or kernel issue. I definitely needed the wifi back so i went on to try and experiment more on the device which brought me to CM 12.1 and I flashed it via TWRP. It brought back my wifi but now i miss some of my staple apps on this device especially S Pen Stylus & S health. I tried the simple method - downloading a firmware from sammobile and flashing it through Odin but it failed in Odin. Is there any way I can go back to to Stock firmware? My knox is at 0x1 but it doesn't matter much.
Thanks a lot in advance.
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yes, download smartswitch from samsung and use the emergency feature ...you need your model # and SN # for it

djlilyazi said:
yes, download smartswitch from samsung and use the emergency feature ...you need your model # and SN # for it
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Hi,
I already tried that but it gives this error.

Maybe you have updated your bootloader that's why you can't downgrade. Try lollipop roms. Or try a tw based custom rom with twrp.

What is the baseband and bootloader on your phone?
Match the last 4 characters to firmware here: http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/database/SM-N9005/

I'm sorry for hijacking this post, but something fairly similar happened to me.
I've got an SM-N900, decided to update to Lollipop but despite all my efforts I've been getting awful battery life so I'd like to go back to KK.
Right now I'm using
Bootloader & PDA: N900UBUEBOF1
CSC: N900PGUEBOF2
Baseband: N900UBUEBOC3
and would like to go back to
PDA: N900UBUDND1
CSC: N900UWADND3
I've been reading and found that you need to flash this if your bootloader is on Lollipop, this is where my doubts begin. How do I know if my bootloader has been updated to Lollipop? If my BL is on Lollipop and I flash that file, can I install any KK rom?
Thank you for reading this, and I apologize for hijacking this thread.