Right!... on 3rd coffee now and I'm doing shapes and colours!
So,
Hawker old boy! You emerged from your cave on Mount Doom in the Welsh Mountains and gone and got yourself a Samsung Galaxy S4, i9505, I presume.
I can now disclose why
Hawker took so long to join us on the S4....
It stems from the fact that in Wales, a small principality in the UK, there are a lot of people with the same surnames, like Jones, Morgan, Davies, etc: Something you'll know if you've ever seen The Englishman who went up a Hill and came down a Mountain or Zulu. We won't go into the reasons for that just now. Therefore, to distinguish between them they have nicknames or add-ons like, Morgan the Goat, Jones the Builder, Postman the Pat, etc:
Unfortunately,
Hawker is known as,
Hawker the Flasher!
Anyway, long story short, he needed me to confirm why he was known as this. I might have been able to help him a lot quicker if he'd told me that the police in Wales are called, "
Heddlu".
... and that is a true story... teetotallers honour!
Anyway, back on topic. You've no doubt discovered that there is not a great deal of difference between the SGSII that, I hasten to add, was/is IMHO, a blooming good phone, and the S4.
Samsung have actually done all us modders a favour by building a phone and giving us the battery that can deal not only with Android 4.2.2 but also all the extra features and bloatware that Samsung have added on...
Because this means that when the bloatware is removed, depending on your definition of bloatware, you have a stonking, powerhouse, of a phone and battery.
Things you may notice, coming from the SGSII...
1. No combined root kernel and recovery so far.
2. Modems on the i9505 have to be flashed via Odin.
3. CWM is replaced by ROM Manager
4. Some things that Samsung have added are actually very good. For instance, their camera is far superior to the stock, Android 4.3 Special Edition, camera as there are a lot more, easy to access, settings and you can store stuff on the extSDcard which you cannot do on the stock Android SE.
5. The S4 has an LED indicator. :thumb:
6. ES Explorer doesn't, "seem", to offer read/write system changes and I'm using
Root Explorer.
Update... should read, "special permissions".
There are other things that I'm sure I've forgotten... :dontknow:
(P.S.
Syd seems to have lost his Kiss of Death, (KoD), with ROMs and kernels and has therefore shown a distinct yellow streak when it comes to testing anything a bit, "iffy", in case he spoils his nice S4.)