Recent content by Beachbum37

I still do not have it either. Kies and software update still says I have the current version. I am going to stop checking, not sure if I am keeping the phone much longer.

I just did a wipe/factory reset and everything is GTG. I didn't lose much doing it and it probably needed it as i haven't really done it since i have had the phone. I guess there are different ROE for copying/pulling/pasting/replacing files using ES file explorer in root or in general of...

I looked at the file, it is different. According to XDA it still works on 4.4 but I tried it and it does not. I have screwed up my phone. I had a copy of the xml file and placed the original back into the folder and it did not help. Just about all of my apps crash on start up. (in short) see...

Ok I couldn't leave well enough alone. I have my phone updated and rooted via your Odin image and it was working great (minus SD card write access) I read over in XDA that the modified platform.xml was still working on 4.4 so I downloaded the modified file and copied it to my phone but before...

Thanks, I guess my edit to my previous post didn't work. I loaded successfully via ODIN and it worked like a champ! Thanks again for the help and the hard work and coding that you do. I will probably not edit any more files but if i do i will make a copy/backup of the file. I think i know the...

Thanks. I understand the changes I made affecting it. So I can just go ahead and root my S4 again with Odin, install SuperSU and then flash your image from here and that will give me 4.4 with root access?

Thanks for the info and lesson learned. That is kind of what I figured the issue was and I thought by deleting the that line, it might work. Will the phone update via side loading if it is rooted? As far as flashing an ODIN image, is there anything special I need to do? Will I lose everything...

I have tried side loading after the OTA failed numerous times. My phone was rooted once, via odin, i edited/added the one line in the xml file to enable SD card write access (didn't touch anything else) and unrooted and the phone worked great. I was unrooted when I initially tried on the OTA and...

I re-rooted and edited the XML file to remove the group permission for SD card write access and then did full un-root with SuperSu and re-started the phone. I then tried the update and no luck, I still receive an error. Also tried side loading and no luck.

Did you try to remove the line of code from the XML file that you added to give you SD card write access? I am having the same problem. I was going to root again, remove the line from the XML file and then unroot and try to apply the update to see if that would work.

I know and now i cannot decide if want to revert back so i can update it and then not be able to use it. Of course that is why i got the phone in order to learn how to do all of this and have the ability to experiment. So did you reroot and edit the xml file back to original state and then...

I did the same thing. Rooted, edited XML File to allow SD Card write access, no issues. Unrooted, no issues. I just went to upgrade to 4.4 and it gets almost half way through and i get an error and it reboots, no update. Tried it three times and no luck. Guess i will have to root again, edit the...

Nice. Sorry, just got back to reading this. I think i am going to unroot it although one of my apps has some nice features if the phone is rooted.

Hello, new at posting and first time rooting. I just rooted and applied the fix.Pretty easy after i figured out how to set permissions using root access. I haven't unrooted yet but probably will soon. I am glad i fixed that.:)