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07-24-2013, 08:51 AM
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#526 | | What hasn't Killed me, has made me more tolerant of RS!
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Originally Posted by harrywang  Or put no animation at and get NO lag.
This is my first smartphone EVER and after tinkernig it for a month I have pretty much uncovered everything about this phone.
The thing about android phones is that you have a LOT of freedom, and I mean a LOT. Which is why I'll never support a company like apple. It's not hard to learn to root and mod your phone to your liking with a bit of research which makes you able to completely customize your android to your liking. With the s4, it is almost impossible to brick your phone unless you are a complete idiot (knock on wood though hehe)
Anyways here are some tips to make your phone extremely fast. I had some help in this thread so now I want to give back.
1. Root your phone first (this part is very very easy, canadian models have probably the easiest way to root there phones)
2. I advise everyone to learn how to flash there roms. I thought this was hard at first to, but again its VERY easy. Just download Rom manager after you root your phone. Everything else should be common sense or read a couple threads back for instructions. Choose a rom from the xda forums. I personally love roms that are debloated and is optimized for speed and battery.
3. After you choose your rom flash a kernel. The BEST one right now is ausdism kernel. Has the best battery life and speed optimizations. Look it up on xda forums again.
4. To further lower your lag, or TOTALLY get rid of it, and make your phone the fastest phone in the world, download a different launcher, SPECIFICALLY NOVA as I think its the only one that has the option to change the speed animations. Look and feel > scroll speed and animatino speed > put it to "faster than light" Oh and make sure to put no animation like I said earlier in developer options instead of .5
You now have the fastest and lag free phone on the internet. Doing these settings my phone is completely lag free. All my friends are amazed at how my s4 is 1000000X faster then there s4. It's not even a contest. It's even more faster then my gf's iphone5.
I've also managed to get my battery life to 6+ hours screen time with 1day15hours in total. Pretty amazing if you ask me.
I much prefer TW roms now as the GE roms are pretty unstable as it's still based off TW. You also lose a shit ton of features. I will have to try again with 4.3 though, hopefully they will optimize it more and some develeopers create a godly rom for it. As it looks like right now 4.3 seems to be pretty good. The leak is terrible though. TW has the best features IMO, so just make sure to get a debloated one.
Another thing someone said they wanted the TW camera for GE. I think there is a mod for that somewhere on XDA. Nevertheless I think the GE camera is way better. | Does ausdim's kernel allow you to change the colors? One reason I stick with using Ktoon's kernel is that is has trinity colors option which allows me to make the colors more 'colder' (whites are more like a brand new white t-shirt than a white t-shirt that has been worn many times, haha). I don't like Samsung's factory settings cuz it makes the screen more warm and 'yellowish'.
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07-24-2013, 02:17 PM
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#527 | | I am Hook'd on RS
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Originally Posted by kenleu Does ausdim's kernel allow you to change the colors? One reason I stick with using Ktoon's kernel is that is has trinity colors option which allows me to make the colors more 'colder' (whites are more like a brand new white t-shirt than a white t-shirt that has been worn many times, haha). I don't like Samsung's factory settings cuz it makes the screen more warm and 'yellowish'. | Don't know, but I would assume so. I don't really mess around with the kernel settings. One of the reasons why I prefer TW is the feature to change the display to "movie" mode. Which is considered to be the best display setting for the s4, has the most accurate colors.
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07-25-2013, 10:50 AM
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#528 | | NEWBIE ACCOUNT!
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Is there a difference between the T-Mobile american phone and the Bell Canada Phone?
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07-25-2013, 11:41 AM
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#529 | | Revscene.net has a homepage?!
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if i flash a different rom and/or kernel, will it wipe all my existing data on the phone?
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07-26-2013, 09:11 AM
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#530 | | THE CHAMPION OF CAPUA
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Is it normal to lose 15~20 percent over night with everything turned off and power savings turned on?
This phone seems like a huge battery hog.
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07-26-2013, 01:35 PM
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#531 | | I'll be good I promise.
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Pretty new to rooting and what not what do you guys recommend for s4 ROM? I'm looking for a touchwiz based and debloated ROM.
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07-26-2013, 02:34 PM
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#532 | | I'll be good I promise.
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And also what's the significant differences between sgh-i337m and the gt-i9505? Could I install wanam lite for gt-i9505 on a sgh-i337? Or would you have to find an appropriate ROM for sgh-i337m?
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07-26-2013, 02:35 PM
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#533 | | I am Hook'd on RS
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Originally Posted by Spartacus Is it normal to lose 15~20 percent over night with everything turned off and power savings turned on?
This phone seems like a huge battery hog.
Posted via RS Mobile | Nope. Something is causing wakelocks that is preventing your phone from deep sleep. I only lose 1-4% on my phone overnight.
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07-27-2013, 02:26 AM
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#534 | | Where's my RS Christmas Lobster?!
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is there a legitimate guide to rooting? i read a few pages back stating some people got it bricked..?
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07-27-2013, 10:01 AM
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#535 | | THE CHAMPION OF CAPUA
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Originally Posted by harrywang Nope. Something is causing wakelocks that is preventing your phone from deep sleep. I only lose 1-4% on my phone overnight. | THANK YOU!
is there any app or program i can use to figure out whats doing this?
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07-27-2013, 11:29 AM
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#536 | | My homepage has been set to RS
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Originally Posted by akalic is there a legitimate guide to rooting? i read a few pages back stating some people got it bricked..? | i used this to help me root my SGH-I337M [SGH-I337M] CF-Auto-Root [CANADIAN MODELS ONLY] - xda-developers | |
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07-27-2013, 09:48 PM
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#537 | | I Will not Admit my Addiction to RS
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Originally Posted by Spartacus THANK YOU!
is there any app or program i can use to figure out whats doing this? | BetterBatteryStats
There's a free XDA version.
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07-27-2013, 11:55 PM
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#538 | | RS.net, helping ugly ppl have sex since 2001
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Originally Posted by Alby | chainfire is a godly dev. i bought his triangle away and supersu pro apps.
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07-28-2013, 03:45 PM
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#539 | | Captain Happy Bubble is my Homeboy
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Has any one killed their MicroSD card yet? Not even 3 weeks old, my SD memory card died.
Seems like a common problem.
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07-28-2013, 04:50 PM
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#540 | | RS controls my life!
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Originally Posted by Zheff Has any one killed their MicroSD card yet? Not even 3 weeks old, my SD memory card died.
Seems like a common problem. | Same, my Kingston died after 3 weeks.
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07-28-2013, 04:53 PM
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#541 | | My homepage has been set to RS
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mines a sandisk and its running fine. had it for about a month and a half.
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07-28-2013, 04:57 PM
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#542 | | I Will not Admit my Addiction to RS
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Originally Posted by Zheff Has any one killed their MicroSD card yet? Not even 3 weeks old, my SD memory card died.
Seems like a common problem. | Was it an AData card?
I have a 32GB AData card and it died after 3 weeks in my S4. I know of a few other people who had their AData cards die in a short period of time too. All different kinds of Samsung phones.
I didn't have any problems with my other cards in the S4.
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07-29-2013, 12:34 AM
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#543 | | Where's my RS Christmas Lobster?!
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Originally Posted by Alby | thanks, this doesn't wipe any SD or phone data right? Just want to be cautious..
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07-29-2013, 01:49 AM
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#544 | | My homepage has been set to RS
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it shouldn't
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07-29-2013, 07:17 PM
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#545 | | Captain Happy Bubble is my Homeboy
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Originally Posted by mrks Was it an AData card?
I have a 32GB AData card and it died after 3 weeks in my S4. I know of a few other people who had their AData cards die in a short period of time too. All different kinds of Samsung phones.
I didn't have any problems with my other cards in the S4. | Yah it is! Adata 16GB class 10..got it from NCIX
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07-29-2013, 11:26 PM
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#546 | | Where's my RS Christmas Lobster?!
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yup i got the same problem with Adata card. Went thru 4 of those. Waste of money. Now my 32GB patriot one died like 3 weeks ago and i didnt't even store anything big in there beside a couple of pictures i took. Not gonna bother putting another microSD card. If you go into gallery and notice lag or some pictures not loading then you know your card is dieing. Back them up ASAP if you encounter this problem.
PS: Not sure if it's faulty microSD but my previous dead card is when i'm still using my galaxy S2.
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07-31-2013, 08:20 PM
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#547 | | I Will not Admit my Addiction to RS
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My friend warned me about the problem after I mentioned I picked one up. It's a good thing I didn't trust the AData microSD card with pictures.
Dropbox with auto upload saved all my pictures. Good thing the S4 comes with the 48GB bonus.
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08-01-2013, 01:47 PM
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#548 | | RS.net, helping ugly ppl have sex since 2001
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Originally Posted by mrks My friend warned me about the problem after I mentioned I picked one up. It's a good thing I didn't trust the AData microSD card with pictures.
Dropbox with auto upload saved all my pictures. Good thing the S4 comes with the 48GB bonus. | Gross, Dropbox that is. I use Copy and I have 90 GBs of free cloud storage that does not expire. 
There was a thread about Copy earlier.
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08-01-2013, 03:12 PM
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#549 | | Wunder? Wonder?? Wander???
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I had issues using the ROM you guys posted. My phone would just stay at the google boot screen with the 4 circles coming together and would vibrate and reboot. This rom worked for me i thought i would paste it since ive had no problems so far and it worked right away. Android-4.3-I9505GUEUBMFP-Deodexed-I9505.zip | by 1337RYoN for Galaxy S4 | |
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08-01-2013, 03:15 PM
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#550 | | Wunder? Wonder?? Wander???
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Also if your using the 4.3 Google ROM which doesnt have air gesture, here is a app you can use to get them back. just go to the link on your galaxy s4 browser download the apk to your phone and install. make sure to open the app after and configure it. [APP][2.2+][v1.2.9] Hovering Controls (emulates Air Gesture from S4) - xda-developers | |
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