Samsung Galaxy S4

[Bryn]

Is CM available for the S4 yet? What firmware are you guys running?

 

[gregmcc]

Just had a look on xda. You can root phone very easily and dump the image. I think its a bit early for cfw though

 

[DominionZA]

Just had a look on xda. You can root phone very easily and dump the image. I think its a bit early for cfw though

Other way around. CWM is hundreds. In beta, bit works. Used it to factory reset already.
Root is not working though. Common issue. Just going to wait it out

 

[mercurial]

More Samsung Galaxy S4 Exynos 5 Octa benchmarks surface

The fourth generation Galaxy S smartphone was launched with two different processor variants, one with Snapdragon 600 chipset on board and the other with the company’s own Exynos 5 Octa platform. The folks at FoneArena have got their hands on the Exynos 5 variant of the device and put the smartphone through quite a few synthetic benchmark tests.

As the name suggests, the Octa-core variant of Galaxy S4 has eight processing cores, with the four powerful Cortex A15 chips clocked at 1.6 GHz and the four power-saving Cortex A7 chips running at 1.2 GHz.

The benchmark tests involved Quadrant, AnTuTu, Vellamo and GLBenchmark, which covers pretty much every component of the device.

The Exynos 5 powered Samsung Galaxy S4 is right at the top of the Quadrant benchmark and has a huge lead over its other competitors which include HTC One and Sony Xperia Z.

The latest flagship smartphone from Samsung failed to beat the HTC One in the AnTuTu benchmark 2.9. However, the Galaxy S4 device managed to aggregate 28,018 points in the AnTuTu 3.0 benchmark, whereas the HTC One managed only 24,259 points.

Samsung Galaxy S4 is right behind the HTC Butterfly in the Vellamo 1.0 browser benchmark tests with a score of 2461 points.

Next up is the GL Benchmark tests and at the onscreen evaluation, the Galaxy S4 managed to top all competitors with its PowerVR SGX544MP3 GPU clocked at 533 MHz. The device scored an impressive 39 fps in the test.

 

[Aharon]

Nice, although I thought it would 'clean-up' on all benchmarks. Goes to show....

 

[gregmcc]

Other way around. CWM is hundreds. In beta, bit works. Used it to factory reset already.
Root is not working though. Common issue. Just going to wait it out

You can root the octa processor version, not the snapdragon version yet. I'm not sure what version is available in SA

A bit more searching and it looks like both versions are rootable.

 

[Roman4604]

Since they've been publicly launched, most major reviewers/bloggers are now in possession of both i9500 & i9505 variants. During the course of next week we should start seeing some detailed side-by-side comparison between the two, will be interesting.

 

[Aharon]

Since they've been publicly launched, most major reviewers/bloggers are now in possession of both i9500 & i9505 variants. During the course of next week we should start seeing some detailed side-by-side comparison between the two, will be interesting.

Indeed it should be interesting. The first review I saw on Sam mobile showed the Octa murdering the quad lte.

 

[Roman4604]

The first review I saw on Sam mobile showed the Octa murdering the quad lte.

But that was comparing disparate benchmark results, not the same as side-by-side comparison under the same controlled conditions.

 

[Tsepz_GP]

More Samsung Galaxy S4 Exynos 5 Octa benchmarks surface

What a thing. seems we do have a new benchmark king until Note3 arrives.

 

[linkinpark]

Has anyone managed to find a working WatchON profile for DSTV?

 

[Aharon]

Has anyone managed to find a working WatchON profile for DSTV?

What is this?

 

[CodeMaster]

Don't use DSTV, so u can't help you there
I was hoping to find a profile for the Hauppage remote on my HTPC, but no luck yet - not too phased about that though, because at least I can use the XBMC app for that. The LG profile work fine for my tv.

 

[linkinpark]

What is this?

WatchON is the IR remote app, it has profiles for a whole host of device types and manufacturers. I have my Samsung TV working fine, but couldn't find any profile to control my SD PVR DSTV Decoder.

 

[CodeMaster]

Not really S4 specific, but sharing here because it looks good on a S4
It's a sys info live wallpaper, similar in principle to 'conky' for Linux.
I don't really like live wallpapers, so it won't stay for long, but it works well for those that do like them.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.main.kurousa.android.livewallpaper.DeviceInfo

 

[mercurial]

I've got the original S4 wallpaper on my S2 I've also used that one before.

 

[simp]

Root is here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2255652

Probably safest to wait for the local ROM image to become available. No idea if this affects status information yet. Who's brave enough to find out?

 

[techead]

Root is here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2255652

Probably safest to wait for the local ROM image to become available. No idea if this affects status information yet. Who's brave enough to find out?

not me

I just want some AWESOME backgrounds that I can use to really show off this HD screen!

 

[techead]

anyone know how to get access to the service menu on the S4??

I used to use *#301279# to access the HSDPA/HSUPA Control Menu. When that stopped working when I started using Custom ROM's on my S2, then I had to use *#197328640# >1 >8 >3

None of those commands work now though.. sucks

 

[linkinpark]

These are the only codes i know:

*#0*# LCD TEST MODE
* #1234# to check software version of phone.
*#12580*369# to check software and hardware information.
*#0228# Battery status (ADC, RSSI reading)
*#0011# Service Menu