Recent content by jameshg1

FWIW mine is the unlocked international version.

I dropped from mobile network twice in two days. Anyone else? Didn't happen once on my prior phone.

I didn't realize they were and don't know how to change it. I think my prior phone did it by itself.

It doesn't seem to let you. Only contacts saved to the phone itself. Do you guys use your contacts as SIM card contacts?

Yeah dude it's a real pain in the ***. I will say this though, it is a nice device, and I may be a little impatient but I'm pretty good at following instructions but if I can't pick something up after hours something's wrong. I'm really annoyed but I'm just going to hold onto it, it does have...

Ok so, I run the CWM TAR as a PDA, i get a green PASS, my phone reboots, but when i hit volume up home power, i go into "android system recovery", not "cwm recovery" with an option to then load from zip sd card so i can do the super user files........ ARGH..... man i cant believe not one person...

Such BS. Oudin never flashes yellow and detects phone in download mode, installed the Samsung drivers, its on uSB debug mode, im using the right one for my 9500, its such bs that its this difficult and that NOBODY HERE HAS A ******* CLUE

I'm going to try to root again and/or install a new firmware version. Would the new firmware clear memory? EDIT: Just realized i have the i9500 not 9505

Hilarious and proves the point that Android users really don't even know their own platform, too damn confusing. Seriously it's such a joke that I'd almost be willing to Paypal someone to give me what should be CLEAR AND SIMPLE INSTRUCTIONS.

Well I see it as simple as, they jailbreak (ergo "root") the phone, and perhaps one day they try to recover something of their own and stumble across my stuff. The phone doesn't get recognized as a drive on the PC, it comes up on USB storage mode as MTP/PTP and the recovery programs (even those...

My device is factory unlocked so isn't my bootloader already good? I've seriously exhausted myself searching, Android is so damn complicated, jailbreaking was not this hard. I just want 100% confirmation my internal memory is gone and cannot be recovered, i can't believe 8 reformats aren't...

Then im screwed because the baseband ending in MDK apparently can't be "rooted". I tried two different methods. First one said it was successful and the phone restarted, but then it said the Super User binary needed to be updated and it could never do that install and it said send the log file...

Does the phone need to be rooted to flash the ROM?

In short: I'm swapping my Galaxy S4 with someone. I deleted my personal photos and have factory reset the phone about 8 times since. I want to make sure they can't recover the deleted data via any recovery software. I had 20 personal pics on the device and a few videos; after my first factory...