Hi, I'm new to flashing ROM's and really don't want to damage this phone.
It's a Samsung Galaxy S4 GT i9500. Is this specific enough? I've heard there are international and non-international versions.
I found this ROM which got good reviews here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s4/?nocache=1&z=1058009516407261#romList
but I'm not 100% sure it's compatible.
Could someone tell me how I can be 100% sure?
Secondly, some basic instructions on how to restore the phone using Linux (Kubuntu 13.10 to be specific) would be great. This can be done through the USB port on both devices, right?
Thanks
You need to try custom roms by yourself and only you can know which rom suites you. ?
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Title says all, is there any way to port i9500 roms to 9505 ? Is there an easy way or is it hard to do. Any help is much appriciated.
This may be a stupid question, but I'm a newly converted Apple-Android would-be developer so I apologize in advance if the answer is obvious.. I was looking at the processors for the S4 and the S5 and they're both Qualcomm Snapdragons, but just different models. Based on that, it seems they should be able to run the same ROMs (at least the S5 should be able to run S4 ROMs) but from what I've seen they don't seem interchangeable. So my question is, can my GS5 run a ROM developed for the S4 or is there something deeper than just the processor model that determines the kind of ROM that can be run on it?
DarthCthulhu said:
This may be a stupid question, but I'm a newly converted Apple-Android would-be developer so I apologize in advance if the answer is obvious.. I was looking at the processors for the S4 and the S5 and they're both Qualcomm Snapdragons, but just different models. Based on that, it seems they should be able to run the same ROMs (at least the S5 should be able to run S4 ROMs) but from what I've seen they don't seem interchangeable. So my question is, can my GS5 run a ROM developed for the S4 or is there something deeper than just the processor model that determines the kind of ROM that can be run on it?
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No, different cpu, gpu, bootloader. It could maybe be ported to the S5 but you can`t flash a original S4 rom on a S5 or vice versa.
gee2012 said:
No, different cpu, gpu, bootloader. It could maybe be ported to the S5 but you can`t flash a original S4 rom on a S5 or vice versa.
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Thanks. I'm used to there being a standard on hardware for PCs whereas I guess there isn't one for Android phones. It just seemed odd to me that ROMs have to be rewritten or ported for every particular phone.
Does anyone know where i can get a service manual for S4 model i9506? I´ve found for i9500, but since some voltages are different from both models, i assume there must be a specific one for i9506.
Thanks in advance,
Regards
This kind of thread have been opened before but i haven`t reached a conclusion based on their response.
So if anyone can confirm to me.
What kind of roms can i flash on an Galaxy S5 G900M?
Will it be G900F?
or i can flash any rom of various version?
I know that others versions of s5 have different band that are used by the countries because the antenna use different frequencies. So i'm in doubt.
Thanks for answering.