[NOOB FRIENDLY] Sprint Galaxy S4 Questions Thread - ALL Are Welcome!
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Got it done. Came apart easier than I thought. Did break the ribbon cable to digitizer. Anyone know if it can be replaced without changing lcd digitizer
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Unfortunately I cannot help on this, hope some one will. So I don't know, Is that a thumbs up or thumbs down ? or in the middle?
Hey all! I've rooted dozens of phones and have never needed to unroot any of them up until today. My mother dropped her phone and her screen is cracked so she needs to bring it in to Sprint for her replacement. Heres what she has...
-Sprint GS4 sph-l720
-Sacs KK ROM V3
-NAE baseband only (She never took the MJA OTA update so, as far as I know, knox is not present.)
-MF9 bootloader
Can anyone advise on how to go about this?
-Sprint GS4 sph-l720
-Sacs KK ROM V3
-NAE baseband only (She never took the MJA OTA update so, as far as I know, knox is not present.)
-MF9 bootloader
Can anyone advise on how to go about this?
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If she is going in to replace it, why worry about unrooting it? I've taken rooted phone in to be worked on, never had any problems. If you are worried about it, just do a factory reset ?
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If she is going in to replace it, why worry about unrooting it? I've taken rooted phone in to be worked on, never had any problems. If you are worried about it, just do a factory reset ?
I tried explaining this to her as I have read how reasonable Sprint's policy is on rooted devices (plus the fact that the replacement has nothing to do with the phone being modified). I plan on continuing to urge her not to, but if need be I wanted to know how to go about it.
To do the factory reset, go into recovery and do the factory reset, that should be the easiest way. If you have SuperSU by Chainfire, go into it and it has unroot, don't forget to uninstall the apps that have to do with root [emoji14]
Don't forget mom's (and dads) know best, lol [emoji6]
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So, I've been running various night lies from cm11 jflte, and of course I have an L720. However, somewhere along the way I got this lovely "roaming indicator off." I could care less, but with this came the lack of LTE and ability to send MMS. I've tried flashing certain zips to fix it and no result. I've tried changing APNs same result. I've tried clean flashing to older snapshot releases and they too yield the same thing. I flashed the last pre unified nightly. And everything worked, but updating to m8 returned the roaming indicator off.
Just curious if anyone has a fix that i can try.
Just curious if anyone has a fix that i can try.
Use odin 3.07 or 3.09 and install the latest stock rom. Install from this link http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2663619
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Hey all,
I've had my Sprint S4 rooted for quite sometime now, I never flashed a custom rom just kept it stock. I rooted it for the wifi hotspot mod.
I recently downloaded the 4.2.2 update and tried to but doesn't seem to complete the install it just reboots and goes to TWRP.
Now my baseband version which is MF9 and build number MDL do not match. I'd like to get my hotspot mod working again but don't know how to proceed. I know these two need to match.
again my phone is:
Sprint Samsung Galaxy 4 SPH-L720
Android 4.2.2
Baseband ver L720VPUAMF9
Kernal ver 3.4.0-529760
Build num JDQ39.L720VPUAMDL
any help is greatly appreciated.
Hey all,
I've had my Sprint S4 rooted for quite sometime now, I never flashed a custom rom just kept it stock. I rooted it for the wifi hotspot mod.
I recently downloaded the 4.2.2 update and tried to but doesn't seem to complete the install it just reboots and goes to TWRP.
Now my baseband version which is MF9 and build number MDL do not match. I'd like to get my hotspot mod working again but don't know how to proceed. I know these two need to match.
again my phone is:
Sprint Samsung Galaxy 4 SPH-L720
Android 4.2.2
Baseband ver L720VPUAMF9
Kernal ver 3.4.0-529760
Build num JDQ39.L720VPUAMDL
any help is greatly appreciated.
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I had rooted my phone with Auto CF root couple months ago, I tried unrooting it today while installing a custom recovery, got it installed right but now its the android recovery back again, This is sprint SPH-L720 phone with no warranty, I read just to flash stock rom to get it unrooted, I end up getting 4.3 android on it but the wifi and calling doesn't work on it so I installed what I had on it before which was stock version of 4.2.2, Its like that now and same issues, Can I just reflash the stock rom with odin or do I need to reroot it then unroot it?
I never saw a response to my question but that's OK - it made me use my brain a little! After diving in depth to my friend's issue, I discovered his EFS folder was empty. His phone worked fine on stock, but that seemed to prevent CM11 from loading. I found this fix somewhere so I though I would share it:
Flash CWM recovery.
Install ADB on your computer.
Boot your device into recovery mode.
Connect your device to PC via USB cable.
In recovery mode Choose “mount and storage > mount /system”.
Open ADB command window and type:
adb shell
su
mke2fs /dev/block/mmcblk0p10
mount -w -t ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk0p10
reboot
This filled the EFS folder properly. I rebooted the phone, copied the CM11 and GApps ZIPs to the phone, and loaded CM11 without a hitch. I hope this helps someone down the line.
You should have used odin to get the custom recovery, no need to unroot. That would have given you a custom recovery.
Thanks, I guess I should have said what my goal was my bad, I want the lastest version of stock ROM not rooted, plan on selling my phone, thanks... I flashed 4.4.2 NAE looks like it's all back to unroot and my counter should be 0 because triangle away before flashing stock ROM nonrooted
I have been away for a few months, what are the Roms that are based on S5?
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I saw this on another part of the forum, so I thought I might as well expand it here! Credits to @malybru for inspiration and help!
Useful links will be in the 2nd post.
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Always remember to search before posting! There most likely is SOMEONE out there with a similar problem to yours!Make sure that you have a SPRINT SAMSUNG GALAXY S4. If you do not, you are in the wrong section of the forum! Try out this link and see which model you have and add it to your signature - Useful Signatures
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So I was also a newb at one point (weren't we all), and I really didn't know who to go too. XDA came into my life and I was so happy. The problem, however, is that sometimes the terminology and that "new person" feeling was making me feel on edge. That, however, was a while ago. I know a lot more, but I wanted to make this thread to try and help out some of the newer people who are entering the Android world.11[NOOB FRIENDLY] SPH-L720 Questions Thread - ALL Are Welcome!
Here are some quick useful links that you can use!- Link to Galaxy S4 root - Galaxy S4 Root HOW TO
- Stock Firmware - Stock Firmwares
- Directory of *almost* every mod, tweak, ROM and Kernel for Sprint Galaxy S4 - Roms/Kernels/Recoveries/Mods/Themes/Games/Apps
- WiFi Hotspot Mod - Hotspot Mod
- Consumer Guide - Sprint S4 User Guide
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6Glad to see someone had the guts to start this thread.
I too, for one, get tired of the condescending attitude of people who forget that they were once noobs.
Congrats!5This a 'noob friendly' post.
BUT really you should be able to find the answers to every question you asked if you spend some time searching, reading and then reading some more. I cannot stress how much better off you will be if you read through the stickies and how-to's yourself AND read all the way through the whole OPs (original posts AND follow-up pages). Yes I know some posts are a dozens or hundreds of pages long, but you will NOT be sorry and will definitely learn. You will also keep yourself from turning you pretty device into a nice shiny paperweight.
Again ALL the answers to the questions you asked are easily found. And just about all of them here in this forum section (Sprint Galaxy S4)
example:
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http://bit.ly/1jTC25k and http://bit.ly/1jTCrVt
If you search and learn you will not be dissapointed and you will surely learn to love your device.
Good luck.4
OMG it freaking worked!!! You guys rock!!! Thank you so much! This even fixed the roaming problem we were having and now his phone works as it should!!! Thank you all SO MUCH! I cant even tell you how much that helped!!
