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

xibinim said:
Does any one have problems with their battery? I have posted about this several times; when using Omega I would normally get 4-5 hours of screen on time. In recent months I have been using Goldfinger and more recently Goldeneye. My battery has been atrocious, played with different kernels with little effect. Yesterday I managed to use 40-50% in under 1.5 hours, last night I unplugged the phone fully charged (probably around 3am) and it had lost 9% by 6am. Finally, when it gets low it drops even faster - probably faster than 1% per minute when in use. Various iterations of Goldeneye seem to magnify the problem.

I now wonder if it's the battery rather than the ROM/kernel. Trying to source a new battery from Amazon but they all seem fake, with exception of the Anker i9505 battery.

EDIT - Just installed Echoe 6.1 - liking the initial setup, much better than the previous KK/TW setup.
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i dont even get 5 hours screen on time with my extended battery
 
Those that are running Echoe 6.1 - did any of you have problems with installing apps you own from the Play store? Its asking me to pay for the apps again :confused:

Lollipop looks good but gone back to 39.1 for now.
 
I miss recent apps when the head phones are plugged in and the TW camera. Got my new battery today, drain still seems too quick, back to ROM/kernel switching.
 
xibinim said:
I miss recent apps when the head phones are plugged ..
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Im not sure what Recent Apps does, but couldnt you do something with Tasker? I've got a menu coming up when I insert the headphones, that way I can quickly launch anything relating to headphones if I wish.
 
Scope said:
Im not sure what Recent Apps does, but couldnt you do something with Tasker? I've got a menu coming up when I insert the headphones, that way I can quickly launch anything relating to headphones if I wish.
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Good idea, think I may have purchased Automateit a whike back but never really used it. Does anyone have an issue with their browser having to reload all open pages after only a small amount of time of not using it? UC Browser does this much more frequently on Lollipop. Also, Flash with UC has stopped working.

^ The GPE ROM is pretty good, I wasn't a fan of Echoe but quite liking GPE 5.0.1
 
Are you coming from any ROM flashing at all or had stock TW all of the time? If the former, it's just a case of loading recovery and flashing the ROM. If the latter, you need to install recovery using Odin in order to flash the ROM. I use Titanium to back up my apps. Guide for installing PhilZ recovery can be found here and the GPE 5.0.1 can be found here. Once you have recovery installed:

  • Back up (I use Titanium and SMS Backup & Restore)
  • Download the GPE 5.0.1 ROM and place on your SD card
  • Turn phone off
  • Whilst holding volume up and home, press and hold the power button
  • When you see small blue text appear during the Samsung logo, release the power button and still hold onto the home/volume up
  • In recovery choose; wipe clean for new ROM, wipe cache partition and go to advanced and choose wipe dalvik cache
  • Go back to the main menu and select install zip, locate the GPE ROM on your SD card
  • Follow instructions to install ROM
  • Go to security in settings and allow unknown installations
  • Once you have set up, download Titanium, select batch operation and restore missing user apps (here you can select which ones you want back and if you want just the app or the app and its data)

This is what I do for mine, I am using the old bootloader. Be careful and I take no responsibility but as long as you're careful it's fairly easy :)
 
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Thanks for the info :)

My s4 has never been rooted and has the latest Samsung ota updates on it.

I'm a little worried about bricking my phone although I'm generally pretty good at this sort of stuff.
 
The only thing I am a little unsure of is your bootloader status/altered steps as a result. You are almost certainly on the newer KNOX bootloader if you have been receiving all of the OTA updates. I don't think this matters much (tripping KNOX will void your warranty though), I will have a look.
 
Almost all of the ROMs I have flashed over the last two years have come pre-rooted, including GPE but that was flashed on top of Ehcoe v6.1
 
So, I'm fed up with my s4. Battery life is awful, even with a replacement anker 5200mAh battery the size of a small house. I've never rooted, rom'd, or whatevered a phone before and I really would rather not have to worry about bricking it. How easy is it to do, what are my options, and how different are they from the stock Samsung EE software that would currently be on it, it's running Android 4.4.2 at the mo.
 
My battery life is also terrible and I'm running a extended battery and have tried three replacement stock batteries.

Also my third phone so must be my usage pattern
 
On the standard battery I was getting maybe half a days usage and the majority of that was the phone on standby. I've tried to find out what's draining the battery to no avail as even with this battery which is twice the size/capacity of the original I'm draining the battery every day. I've not had an iphone so can't compare it.
 
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