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hy guys
yesterday after uninstalling two games from my note(after a 1\2 an hour) i received a call and i couldn't hear the ringtone(while i could hear the voice in the speaker) i tried also sms,music,games,but nothing...my Samung was mute...i reinstalled kl7 stock rom and after that the previous KKA (the newest rom for italy) but nothing again...
my galaxy note was rooted + CWM and i tried to wipe data cache and so on but nothing again...
now a question,is it possible that uninstalling tho games they deleted something important in the note?
and is it possible that i flashed two new roms,but i flashed them without making a factory reset and i continue to have the error that stopped "singing"my Note?
thank you all for your answers!!!

The ringtone and alarm sounds problem could be because you have set a custom ringtone BUT you forget to set it back after a ROM update/change.
IF you have a custom ringtone it gets "lost" sometimes after firmware change/update so remember/try to set it back and test if it works.
If you only use system ringtone it probably come from antother things but I doubt it come from the uninstallation of an apk.
Godd luck

jayGGjay said:
The ringtone and alarm sounds problem could be because you have set a custom ringtone BUT you forget to set it back after a ROM update/change.
IF you have a custom ringtone it gets "lost" sometimes after firmware change/update so remember/try to set it back and test if it works.
If you only use system ringtone it probably come from antother things but I doubt it come from the uninstallation of an apk.
Godd luck
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i use a custom ringtone i put after every flash...i could hear every sound from the speaker,but after some times it stops...i made other flash but also stock ringtone and advice are mute.

[Q] Buttons and bottom half of screen unresponsive.

After the update to 4.4.2 my Galaxy Note 3(unrooted), the buttons(home, power and volume not soft keys) and the bottom half of the screen are sometimes unresponsive. It starts functioning again either after a quick lock and unlock or automatically after a few seconds. Is this a bug in the new update or a problem with the digitizer? I have tried resetting the phone a couple of times. Can someone help me?

jake262 said:
After the update to 4.4.2 my Galaxy Note 3(unrooted), the buttons(home, power and volume not soft keys) and the bottom half of the screen are sometimes unresponsive. It starts functioning again either after a quick lock and unlock or automatically after a few seconds. Is this a bug in the new update or a problem with the digitizer? I have tried resetting the phone a couple of times. Can someone help me?
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factory reset won't remove bugs.
cause u didn't have this problem in previous firmware it s not because of hardware.
so try flash compatible stock rom from another region.
if problem remains take it to official service.
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x102x96x said:
factory reset won't remove bugs.
cause u didn't have this problem in previous firmware it s not because of hardware.
so try flash compatible stock rom from another region.
if problem remains take it to official service.
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It was an official update so short of rooting it and flashing a new firmware i don't see any other options.

jake262 said:
It was an official update so short of rooting it and flashing a new firmware i don't see any other options.
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rooting is not necessary for flashing stock rom.

I'm having the same problems. Screen locks up often when I'm browsing in Chrome. For Gods sake this has 3gb of RAM!!!!!
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x102x96x said:
factory reset won't remove bugs.
cause u didn't have this problem in previous firmware it s not because of hardware.
so try flash compatible stock rom from another region.
if problem remains take it to official service.
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ok so i flashed a stock kitkat firnware. the problem is still there.

jake262 said:
ok so i flashed a stock kitkat firnware. the problem is still there.
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flashed original rom via odin 3.09. Them hard reset. I have the same problem with screen. Is software problem.
Sorry for my bad English.

jake262 said:
After the update to 4.4.2 my Galaxy Note 3(unrooted), the buttons(home, power and volume not soft keys) and the bottom half of the screen are sometimes unresponsive. It starts functioning again either after a quick lock and unlock or automatically after a few seconds. Is this a bug in the new update or a problem with the digitizer? I have tried resetting the phone a couple of times. Can someone help me?
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While phone works just pull out the battery and also don't use cover. I think its just about samsungs politics. ..
Sorry for my English

Same issue
jake262 said:
After the update to 4.4.2 my Galaxy Note 3(unrooted), the buttons(home, power and volume not soft keys) and the bottom half of the screen are sometimes unresponsive. It starts functioning again either after a quick lock and unlock or automatically after a few seconds. Is this a bug in the new update or a problem with the digitizer? I have tried resetting the phone a couple of times. Can someone help me?
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I also have the exact same problem... I already did the factory reset but no luck. I increased the sensitivity but still happens...Can anyone help us? or it is caused by the recent upgrade of OS to kitkat version... Thanks.

GOOD NEWS!
I have been having this issue as well. Lots of research on the net has provided me with no real solutions. I think there is something missing in this update. I do not know what it is im not that smart but something is wrong across the board.
I have done a master reset back to factory and within minutes of the set up it started lagging/ not responding again. Figured i would give it a few days and well nothing changed so I contacted T-mobile and spoke with Tech Support located in Texas and he concluded that it is an SD card. He says that the SD card was on the phone prior to the update and is causing the issue since its old. WTF! I told him that the processor, ram, HDD, CPU are all considered old now. Personally I think its a stupid response.
I am going to give this a shot anyways. NO SD card no pictures no music.... Already within 15 minutes of no SD card issues are still there. I am really starting to hate this phone because of this update. Hoping to get a replacement (new) with 4.3 still on it. NO UPDATE for me till i know this and several issues are fixed.
I know i could root but i dont feel i should have to to fix any issues.
Has anyone else found a solution or heard of one yet?

Just try this , go to setting / general / power save , swith it on.
Then wait a moment before you try your phone again.
my wife phone got this issue because of over heating.
after switching the power save , the issue is gone.

update... contacted Tmobile within the last hour and apparently this rep said this is a known issue. She contacted Samsung and Google (could be blowing smoke up you know what) but she came back and said they are very aware of the issues and are vigorously working on a fix and your informations will be one of the first ones to get it. She was saying 4.4 (kitkat) screwed up a lot of Samsung devices. BTW she was also having the same problems. All replacement phones will come with 4.4 so exchanging is out of the question.
Regarding the power saving thing ill give it a shot. It was on before the master reset. Noticed it was off when i went in. On now so ill try then.

[Q] Help please

Hello. I have Galaxy S4 i9505. I was with my original software kitkat 4.4.2 before 10 days i receive update from 16MB and after install him my phone start crashing and bugging... After that i change my firmware with other stocks and 2 not stock but same bugs. My brightness is bugged . I can`t use auto adjust because i have only 2-3 points that`s are ok, all others are very dark or extra bright . Here is attached pictures of my phone brightness.

VLaDi-G said:
Hello. I have Galaxy S4 i9505. I was with my original software kitkat 4.4.2 before 10 days i receive update from 16MB and after install him my phone start crashing and bugging... After that i change my firmware with other stocks and 2 not stock but same bugs. My brightness is bugged . I can`t use auto adjust because i have only 2-3 points that`s are ok, all others are very dark or extra bright . Here is attached pictures of my phone brightness.
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Try with this method:
Go to recovery by holding volume up+home button+power and after this select wipe data and cache... MAYBE THIS METHOD WILL HELP YOU...
If anything not work go to a SAMSUNG service and say your problem...

Backup the stuff you want to keep and try a factory reset.

I already try both several times. When I go on recovery mode it's same extra bright....

VLaDi-G said:
I already try both several times. When I go on recovery mode it's same extra bright....
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So this look like HW problem. Use your warranty

verny94 said:
So this look like HW problem. Use your warranty
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I don't have warranty... Already expired...

I don't think that's from hw because when i press start button at firs screen is normal and when boot android system video go crazy...

No sound at all on my galaxy s4

Hello,
All sounds on my galaxy s4 (gt-i9505) suddenly stopped. I dont hear any sound (buttons, mp3s,....).. The only sound I hear is sometimes within boot animation, when a booting reaches system, audio is gone. I tried many roms, many basebands, many experiments even stock roms, but nothing helped, but I noticed that audio works IN SAFE MODE!!!! So if there is BASEBAND UNKNOWN = AUDIO WORKS!!! But why? I tried many basebands/modems, but it wasn't helpful.
I flashed with Odin 3.10.6, CWM 6.0.4.4 (I cant get into another recovery after VolumeUP, so I MUST use this recovery.. I dont know why...), then I tried Omega ROM v40, v41; Phoenix ROM; GPE; some stock roms for my and other countries, but nothing helped.. Sound only in SAFE MODE, so I guess its not HW issue.
Last working configuration was on Omega ROM v40, but there have started troubles with sound..
PS: Yes, I tried a trick with headphones, that says you have to insert and pull out a jack many times and clear the hole .... didnt worked in my case.
I read many topics, but to most people helped returning to stock rom, however not in my case again...
Please help me..
thanks

I am also in the same boat as you. At the moment, I am using the S4 i9505 with Slim Rom and Open Gapps.
A while ago, I flashed TWRP and some how that fixed it for a while! But then the problem came back which is quite unfortunate. Since the phone is now mine (it was my sisters) I really want to fix this bad boy and use it (I use Xperia SP if you haven't noticed )
One question, you talked about SAFE MODE? Where can we find that? Remember, I have the same problem as you.
If I find a solution, I will PM and post here on what I did
Cheers!

Help, im stuck with no sound, the weirdest thing ever!

So let's start cuz it's a big story. So i have a Samsung Galaxy S4 GT-I9505, rooted, TRWP Custom Recovery, i had plenty ROM's on him, everytime the ROMS worked perfectly except the bugs they already had....
The last ROM i had was Optimized CM12.1 JDCTeam. (http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...lop/exclusive-antaresone-alucard24-s-t3066696) it worked fine....
One day, they made an update of the ROM. Everything worked fine, until a morning 2-3 days after i made the update.... my alarm clock started ringing (as it was meant to be ) but the screen wasn't turning on.
I restarted the phone...but the alarm was still ringing when the phone restarted then it restarted itself. After this self restart....the phone booted with those optimizations (like the cache was deleted.) After it booted...surprise. No sound. At all. No sound in media player, no sound from calls, no sound when recieveing calls, no sound from my mic too.Then i noticed that movies from Youtube and from my gallery were playing in slowmotion, or not playing at all.
I though it was the ROM ...so i installed other ROMs....no success....all the ROMs i've installed had the same problem. No sounds at all.
Then i found a ROM, that played the Boot animation sound but all the other sounds were still not working. So of course this means it can't be a hardware problem anymore.
So back from the start.
Then i found this ROM, an S6 port : http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s4/i9505-develop/rom-albe95-s6-port-1-0-t3092479
This ROM specifies that i must install the latest lollipop bootloaders and modems for it to work. So i've installed the modems and the bootloader given in the ROM topic....then the ROM and surprize....the sounds were working again. But the new problem was that the SIM reading stopped working and the rom was unstable. I've tried other modems to no success for the SIM.
Other Lollipop and KK roms, thinking that the bootloader or the modem was the one that fixed the sounds, didn't work so i concluded is not the bootloader. And then i've installed this : http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s4/i9505-develop/rom-albe95-s6-port-1-0-t3092479 which at start it didn't played sounds. Then i've installed the bootloader from Albe95 S6 port post...and surprisingly sounds started to work on this ROM too. But from time to time the sounds dissapear..and i have to wait like some seconds to minutes for them to come back + the SIM still not working on this ROM . So somehow is the bootloader....but i dont get why it's working only on S6 ports..not even on MM ROM's is not working...
Can anyone help me ?
Edit : I forgot to mention that my partitions are F2FS....if this matters....

Posting a wall of text as you did here is a certain way to ensure your post gets ignored. You want to edit it and break your post up into discrete paragraphs so it is both readable and understandable.

Strephon Alkhalikoi said:
Posting a wall of text as you did here is a certain way to ensure your post gets ignored. You want to edit it and break your post up into discrete paragraphs so it is both readable and understandable.
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Thanks for the tip I've edited the post....it is better now ? or should i cut some paragraphs?

No, that's fine. I probably should have PMed that to you rather than post it, but it's a bit too late for that. Sorry.
Anyway, your symptoms, where it occurs erratically, could still be a hardware issue. However, I think it more likely that your internal storage "glitched", and that is causing your problems. Make sure you have a backup of your IMEI and EFS by using Wanam's EFS Backup tool. Then grab an I9505 PIT file, a stock ROM, and Odin. Use them to partition the internal storage (which will format it), and install the stock ROM. See if your sound issues are fixed throughout the ROM. If so, then replace the recovery with TWRP and install the ROM you prefer.
If it still happens even after going through this, then it's almost certainly a hardware issue.

Strephon Alkhalikoi said:
No, that's fine. I probably should have PMed that to you rather than post it, but it's a bit too late for that. Sorry.
Anyway, your symptoms, where it occurs erratically, could still be a hardware issue. However, I think it more likely that your internal storage "glitched", and that is causing your problems. Make sure you have a backup of your IMEI and EFS by using Wanam's EFS Backup tool. Then grab an I9505 PIT file, a stock ROM, and Odin. Use them to partition the internal storage (which will format it), and install the stock ROM. See if your sound issues are fixed throughout the ROM. If so, then replace the recovery with TWRP and install the ROM you prefer.
If it still happens even after going through this, then it's almost certainly a hardware issue.
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Thanks a lot sir, i'll try this as soon as i reach home. I let you know if it's working.

verdut said:
Thanks a lot sir, i'll try this as soon as i reach home. I let you know if it's working.
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it seems that the problem wasn;t solved...i noticed something else, some roms , especially stock roms when i use the volume buttoms to change the volume....the rom restarts itself ....