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*** The Official Samsung Galaxy S4 Thread ***

kona786 said:
Screenshots are out :cool:





Sure is - I'm tied up the whole day tomorrow with car maintenance, so if you do it I'd love to know what methods/recovery you used.

Is it ok just to flash a custom recovery via odin then flash a rooted custom rom (non wipe)?
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I'm going to check if it's the same way as rooting the S3 so will have to do a bit of reading. Will let you know when I've rooted it though Mate. Good luck with the car maintenance that's your whole day gone! :p

You can always follow the instructions on this video which is extremely helpful


El1te said:
@stoosh

Can't have too many cases :D

What I meant was wanam is always a safe bet for stability and a daily driver, it's what I've been using and it's great. I'm comfortably getting 7 hours or so screen time with moderate to heavy usage.

I've posted the screenshots in my previous post check it out!

If you need help rooting and such let me know, but the process I followed was:

Install CF-Auto Root -> Install TWRP -> Install Wanamlite -> Wipe Cache/Dalvik-> Install domination
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Awesome screenshots Mate! JB Dom looks amazing and so fresh :cool: That's pushed me to rooting my S4 and installing Wanam and JB Dom. Thanks for the screenshots, nice wallpaper by the way :)

Exactly Dude you can't have too many cases that's the mantra I live by :D

For sure Wanam's a safe bet for stability and you hit the nail on the head as it's the best ROM out there right know to use as a daily driver as pretty much everything works.

Thanks for the offer of help re rooting Mate, will give it a go and let you know how I get on. I take it that I have to flash CF-Auto Root via Odin as Kona previously mentioned?

@Nexus HTC do the strangest things sometimes and I don't understand their logic behind their decisions. This is the kind of thing that really puts consumers off products, they should try and do things right the first time around. If the 3 dot menu wasn't in older firmwares and there I believe there was an option to remove the 3 dot menu in pre release firmware, they should've kept it in there. Maybe in the next firmware the menu will be banished forever

Thanks for the lightroom video the guide is certainly very helpful, will have to install it when I get a chance but then again I really don't take many pictures so I better get out there and start using the S4 camera to take full advantage.

The Optimus G is a great phone but again you're at the mercy of LG's shoddy support and Sony well the less said about them and their software update policy the better :p

The price of the S4 will inevitably drop and by then you can make an informed decision based on all the options available to you. :cool:

The Oppo Find 5 is the dark horse in the race and no doubt all the issues will be fixed but by then there will be other options available in terms of the X Phone which you may find is the device of the two.

Yes you can always flash your HOS to get the most out of the device and improve its longevity or get the Nexus 5 if vanilla android is your thing. There's a wealth of options to chose from and the best part of it all is that you can either save money or get the best device out there which will be great in terms of support and have the latest software available for it.

Hell you might even put the HTC Phablet on your shopping list...that massive screen, Snapdragon 800 and KLP!!! :p
 
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stoosh said:
Awesome screenshots Mate! JB Dom looks amazing and so fresh :cool: That's pushed me to rooting my S4 and installing Wanam and JB Dom. Thanks for the screenshots, nice wallpaper by the way :)

Exactly Dude you can't have too many cases that's the mantra I live by :D

For sure Wanam's a safe bet for stability and you hit the nail on the head as it's the best ROM out there right know to use as a daily driver as pretty much everything works.

Thanks for the offer of help re rooting Mate, will give it a go and let you know how I get on. I take it that I have to flash CF-Auto Root via Odin as Kona previously mentioned?
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Loving the theme it's awesome! Here's a link to the wallpaper if you want it:

http://oi42.tinypic.com/33tky95.jpg

Let me know how you get on with rooting, shouldn't be too bad! Yeah I flashed CF-Auto root via odin, same with TWRP/CWM, rest installs from external SD card :)

@kona786

Thanks mate, it's your turn to put mine to shame now :D
 
kona786 said:
Sweet vid stoosh. Will try and do it Sunday
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Cheers kona, it's basically as El1te stated but in visual form.

Good luck rooting the phone! :D

@El1te Thanks for the wallpaper link Mate I bet the colours pop out on the AMOLED screen. Rooting should be fine, am a veteran as I rooted my S3 and it's identical. The only thing that threw me for a second is TWRP as CWM isn't stable yet but its should all be good.

If you want circle battery you can always try this app in the play store, I have it and it's so good that I paid for it in the end.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/...5odWJhbGVrLmFuZHJvaWQuYXBwcy5yZWJvcm4ucHJvIl0.
 
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Supposedly they have done something with sense V5.1/4.2.2, we will find out soon........


No problem :) Indeed, now is the time for taking pics :D Little tip, don't delete the photos that don't look great (unless they are blurry or/and out of focus :p) i.e. under exposed, lack of colour etc. as this is easily fixed in light room and most of the time..... those are the photos that come out looking great ;)


Hopefully..... as if the price only starts to drop around winter, then I might as well wait for the next lot of phones :( I have a funny feeling we won't see much of a drop for a while (apart from maybe one of bargains/sales) due to how popular this is selling even at £550+, why drop the price when it is selling like hotcakes and expected to sell 80 million for 2013 :eek: It is much like apple and their pricing strategy, they have the price so high because they know that most people will buy it regardless of the price :(


Hopefully google will concentrate on the features for KLP and then maybe stock android will be perfect for me...


Not a chance! :p If those rumours are true i.e. 5.9" screen, that is going to be one big device :o
 
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Urgh! 3 hours to download Wanam using my snail slow "broadband connection." :mad:

I just want to root my phone and play with a new ROM, is that too much to ask for? *rant over*

@Nexus Let's hope HTC see "sense" with the 4.2.2 update :p

Indeed now is the is the time to take pictures, was toying with the idea of buying a compact digital camera (Panasonic DMC TZ40) it supposed to be good for low light pictures as well. Am going to pop down to London in the next month or so and do some touristy type things, so it's a great excuse to take a camera with me. :)

Great tip Mate, will ensure that I do just that! :cool:

There'll always be new phones around the corner and if you wait then you'll never get one or you may just surprise yourself and get suddenly get bored with the phone you have and think sod it..I'm going to get myself a new phone :p

There won't be a price drop for a while and the best place TBH to pick up a S4 is probably from Amazon, great exchange / return policy makes it a joy to buy from there ;):D

Let's hope Google incorporates some useful features in KLP and it's a step up from JB.

LOL! it'll be mooosive! So beyond the likes of you and I! :p
 
Wow that was lucky. I watched a video in regards to rooting and saw he used Vol Up and Home to get into recovery. All this time I have been using Vol Down and Home so was sat in the same cycle each time. Doh!

El1te - I take it I need to wipe to install Wanam?
 
Swarfega said:
Wow that was lucky. I watched a video in regards to rooting and saw he used Vol Up and Home to get into recovery. All this time I have been using Vol Down and Home so was sat in the same cycle each time. Doh!

El1te - I take it I need to wipe to install Wanam?
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Hi mate, glad you got that sorted lol! You don't need to wipe to install Wanam no, just install and then wipe cache once you're done. If you come from a touchwiz rom and flash another touchwiz based rom there's no need to wipe data, only if you get errors or come from AOSP.
 
@stoosh

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I just can't justify buying a proper camera after seeing the sort of results you can get just from spending 15 minutes in lightroom :p There are times where I wish I had a proper camera but then I look at the price not to mention for the lens etc. then I think no way is it worth that much! :o :p (imo)

Not to mention, I rather not have to carry around another thing.


That TZ40 does look pretty damn good though! :cool: If you do get one, be sure to post some photo samples up :)


Very true, another thing I hate about android, the amount of phones that are released throughout the year :mad: You buy something and then a few months later something better comes out......


I just want slow motion recording, zoe alternative + for them to bring the AOSP browser back and incorporate text reflow + a few other things from the likes of touchwiz and that is all! :D
 
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I just did a backup in clockwork which I guess has written to the internal storage. It failed I guess as it ran out of space. Anyone know where it dumps the backup so I can delete it?
 
the s4 seems to get warm at the top half. where on the s3 it gets warm at the bottom half.

when gaming it does get hot, i don't know if that normal but my s3 was the same

so is cpu paced near the top on the s4?
 
Does anyone have a link to TWRP recovery that works? Only because the last time I flashed CWM I had to go through about 3 before I actually got one that worked.
 
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El1te said:
Cheers for the link stoosh! And yes everything pops out of the screen really :D AMOLED <3
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:) No worries Dude. That's great to hear re JB Dom, will get around to rooting my phone this morning. Just need to read up on this Adam kernel business and check if the micro sd card problem has been rectified.

@Nexus

lol :p

I see where you're coming from and yes if the results from Lightroom mean that you can get results which come extremely close to a point and shoot then spending the extra cash does come into question, also carrying another gadget is a bit of a hassle but I'm always carrying a man bag with me when I'm out and about so it wouldn't really be a hassle for me.

Lightroom has got some very decent reviews on Amazon, am very much tempted to get a copy, a very good find by you there Mate :D

Thanks! The Panasonic is a decent camera and would suit my needs perfectly, when I HO I was thinking of taking it to gigs and putting the HDR microphones to good use but now since I've got rid of the HO this camera would make an ideal replacement because it records video / audio very well :)

I'll defo post some pictures up at some point if I do end up getting it :)

It's a never ending game of playing catch up with Android, phones being released constantly you really can't keep up, it becomes extremely annoying for the likes of me who are addicted to buying the latest and greatest flagship phone. The hassle of it all...urgh :o

You have a strong will power keeping your HOS for so long and not being tempted by these flagships :) I really don't know how you manage not to be tempted ;)

I think if the Moto X ticks all the stuff on your want list then I think that it may well be your next phone.

HTC hit it out of the ball park with the Sense camera features and their Sense browser, if the mighty Google have been playing close attention to the likes of HTC and Samsung and incorporate the best of Sense and Touchwiz in KLP then they would've done a very good job :cool:
 
ok guys heres a question. is it best to put 2 normal screen protectors on my s4 or is 1 enough? because my worry is i use my nose to control my phone the heat from my breathing may crate condensation though to the screen or something?

i had a invisibleSHIELD screen protector on my s3 for nearly a year without issues. but i don't want to get one for my s4 because of price and the installation by water like on the s3
 
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