Recent content by apel69

I restarted my S4 this evening and now it won't boot past the SAMSUNG logo. I have tried a variety of things to get it going but none have worked. 1) Soft boot 2) Pulled battery and let it sit awhile 3) Tried to boot into Safe Mode (stuck on same logo with no indication of going into safe mode)...

U.S. Cellular phone trying to connect to Verizon network I recently purchased a used S4 and ran into a snag in that it won't connect to U.S. Cellular despite it being a USC phone. When I took it into the store to get a SIM card and have it activated it kept trying to connect to Verizon...

Sorry I haven't got back sooner. I've been a bit indisposed. I don't know where you are currently at but I would only flash official updates from either of the sites previously mentioned and make sure it matches your phone identically. If you try and flash a firmware that is not compatible with...

I would go to either sammobile.com or samsung-updates.com and download the version that matches your model and country of the phone. It's imperative to get the firmware that matches your phone or else things could go wrong. I would use odin 1.85 since the newer version failed for me. Whatever...

Realism has won out over stubborness. So I moved on and started looking for a new browser and after testing about half a dozen I landed on Next Browser for now. I have some reservations about the group but their browser has a lot of functionality similar to the default browser. I even managed to...

That's great to hear. I tried restoring the data from my S3's "Internet 4.1.2" and it didn't work but at least it didn't break anything. I took a look at Kies and it doesn't support bookmarks. I also looked at using google sync but it appears the "sync internet" option was taken out in the S4...

Well that sucks. Didn't intend to have things go south for you. Restoring with "Bookmarks (stock browser)" didn't work very often so I always restored the "Internet 4.1.2" data on my S3. It worked every time with no issues and preserved the folder structure and order. I decided to see how this...

My original method was to use TB but it didn't work. I used it before to move these elements and apps from my S to S3 and now my S4. Everything has transferred perfectly except my bookmarks. It is like the new internet version doesn't use the same location as my S3 to store files. They are...

Yeah I know but I don't like chrome. GASP! I've read that it does have an import/export option which apparently makes too much sense for Samsung to add to their browser even though they have one for contacts. I kinda figured it was either an android version issue or app version issue. That's why...

It is MF5. My firmware originally was R970VXUAMDL but somewhere along the way it changed to R970VXUAMF5. I still haven't figured out how since I never flashed the latter. My phone is through US Cellular and these are the only two firmwares available. The MF3 looks like it is for AT&T. My phone...

I moved from an S3 to my S4 and have been able to get everything set back up except my bookmarks. I had previously used Super Backup: SMS & Contacts without problems. I used this for call logs, sms and calendar. I used it once for bookmarks but it doesn't preserve the folder structure or order...

I somehow was bit by the MF5 firmware and I am trying to fully understand what I can and can't do. I've read multiple posts with people having issues and unable to go back to MDL. I understand what is, a security upgrade in the bootloader that prevents flashing to an older firmware once the fuse...

I am back in business. I have my phone and home internet back now. Yeah. I used the same stock ROM I had since it was the same as sammobile and I already had it on my system. I just used Odin 1.85 instead. I guess I could have done this earlier and prevented a near stoke but everything else I...

Attachments have been uploaded as mentioned from my first post. Two other things I forgot to mention. The first is a message that appeared on the phone when I tried to reroot the phone and failed. It read "Invalid percent of drawing download progress bar." It never did anything after a long...

Can you be real specific or even point me to a file as I am a bit nervous about messing this up further? Do you mean another Android version like 4.1.2 or something completely different like CM 10? I have ROM backups of both of these from my old S3. I have stock and rooted versions of 4.1.2 that...