Sunday, May 11, 2014

S4 (i9500) ROM review - Hassan ROM (4.4.2) with S5 look and feel

I am super excited to share with you my review on this ROM.

Anyway, I have been looking for a stable S4 ROM which is fast and gives me the Galaxy S5 look - see I wanted to upgrade to S5 but I am still holding this thought off since S5's price is still too high.

The comprehensive review of this super cool ROM is available here (thanks GalaxyS4Root!) but I just want to share a few important features.

XDA link - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2662583
Installation Method - Aroma

1. Fast - It's freaking fast and stable too. Quadrant Standard clocks at 16K+ ! I was at Samsung shop earlier this week and ran Quadrant Standard on an S5 running on stock 4.4.2 rom and it clocked at 17K+. My previous S4 LTE only reached about 10K

2. ROM control - This is an awesome ROM because it comes with loads of ROM control. Check out the battery widget selection, just to show a few cool features available in this ROM




3. S5 Look and Feel.

Details about this is available here in XDA forum

Here's a snapshot of the Setting screen


 To brother Hassan Albaghdadi - Jazakallahu khairan kathira !

Saturday, May 10, 2014

Rooting and ClockWork Mod installation on Galaxy S4 i9500 on Kitkat 4.4.2

Hey folks,

Just got myself an S4 i9500 and it happens to have Kitkat 4.4.2 loaded. I scoured the web to look for the sure fire way to root and install a CWM like recovery tool so, here it is;

Rooting
  • Use odin and  CF-Auto-Root-ja3g-ja3gxx-gti9500.zip
    • Download them here and yes, Odin is included in the ZIP file
  • Check out the following site for instruction details 
Recovery tool
  • Root your device first
  • Use Odin and philz_touch_6.12.8-i9500.tar.md5
    • Download them here
  • The instruction is pretty much standard Odin steps... just point the PDA to the .md5 file

Once you are done, you should have Super SU apps on your S4

Set the phone on recovery to check if you have the recovery tool installed.

Good luck !