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4.3 update (Sprint)

Someone on AndroidCentral did and the Samsung page has been updated so it out there. Everyone with a stock phone is spamming the check now button.
 
Poweranimals said:
I guess I'll just wait for it then. Do you need to be connected to wifi on in order to download it?
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Not really (assuming that you have a decent data connection). Wifi would likely be faster.

ewarren29 said:
Forgive me for the stupid question, is it ota ?
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It should be available OTA (may not be available right away for everyone - it is a staggered release). But if you don't want to wait, you can flash it - see the link that I posted, or the one that Darnell0216 posted.
 
I installed 4.3 via zip file. I can't find the Users tab under Settings. For the Samsung galaxy s4 is there no Users tab for restricted profiles? Is it just for tablets? Help!
 
For those who have been able to update to 4.3 on Sprint, has anybody experienced the problems related by some folk on Verizon?
 
smitty543 said:
For those who have been able to update to 4.3 on Sprint, has anybody experienced the problems related by some folk on Verizon?
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I went. In hindsight, I wish I had not done it. It was a huge hassle compared to the update to MF9. As you can see from all the threads all over the boards, this is not a solid update for a LOT of people. I was rooted MF9, stock with a few tweaks. So I had to go back to unrooted, stock MF9. No big deal. But the install was shaky, so I had to re-do it, which lead to hours and hours and hours of installing different recoveries, downloading and installing different versions, boot loops, hung loops, etc. And once I did get it up and stable, I find out TiBu is broken on 4.3, so I have to reinstall everything manually. And since I had to go back to an MF9 data restore (did not reset the firmware, just the data) at one point, it tripped my Knox bit, so my Sammy warranty is now void. Not sure if that will ever be resettable.

And there's no going back. Once you're on 4.3, you're stuck with it.

Nothing in the update that is worth it so far. Support for the Gear, if that's important to you. You lose the Mobile Data toggle.
 
To add to my post above, I used the camera a bit yesterday. I know we're all different, but a good camera was one of the top two reasons I went to the S4 and paid a bunch of money to early terminate my HTC Evo 4G LTE contract. And up until this update, I've been very happy with it. I take a lot of outdoors pictures and the S4 camera was great at that.

But the pictures I took yesterday, all in good sunlight, were badly over exposed. Reminded me of my line of HTC phones. It has me very worried at this point. Anyone else experience this on 4.3?

I can post some before and after pictures if anyone wants to see them, but trust me when I say it's a dramtic difference.
 
Here are a couple of pictures to illustrate the difference. And this is consistent so far in direct sunlight. I can turn the "exposure value" down to -1 in the settings and the pictures look pretty good again, but that's a PITA to do everytime I take a picture, since that setting does not stick between camera uses/reboots.

Before (4.2.2 MF9):


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After (4.3/MJA):

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pgus13 said:
Has ANYONE gotten the update yet??
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FWIW I got the update; downloaded during night sometime and I installed this morning. Went without a hitch, but is honestly pretty boring. I understand the need for the latest ... I was hitting "Check Now" several times a day. But unless you're waiting for some specific feature, this is not a very exciting update.

re: the camera issue mentioned by 'jejb' ... I don't believe I'm seeing that. The sun isn't super bright today, but I took a few in pretty direct sunlight and they seemed fine. The camera app did take a few seconds to download new software the first time I fired it up ... but the pictures looked OK. Have you double checked all your settings ... I wonder if the "auto night detection" is screwed up somehow?
 
Thanks for checking the camera. I'm sure it's in auto mode with standard settings. I'm somewhat of a camera buff, so I understand how to set it up. Unfortunately, the settings I need to use to correct this issue won't stick in Auto mode. It'd be nice if there was some kind of "program" mode that let you setup things like ISO, exposure, AWB and have the settings persist between uses. But that does not exist for the S4 stock camera.

It'll be a few days before we see any sun, according to the weather guessers around here. I was testing it quite a bit today in heavy cloud cover and it worked pretty well, about what I'd expect of it. I'll test it again the next time we get some sun, but am not confident it is going to fix itself.

I'm testing some other camera apps. Camera 360 is decent, but no video mode. So not an "all in one" solution.
 
Poweranimals said:
Alledgedly. I still haven't though. I actually bought my phone through Sprint. Maybe that's why?
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It's in order of DeviceID. More than likely the later you bought your device, the later you'll get the update (if it's numerical order). We got ours in August. My wife got her prompt. I was rooted so I updated manually.
 
pgus13 said:
Has ANYONE gotten the update yet??
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I got it today. All 500+ MB of it. :D

I hit System Update several times all day, and finally what I did was go into Settings > Application Manager, and swipe over to the All tab. Found Google Services Framework and cleared the data/cache, and forced it closed. After that, went back to System Update and viola! There was magically an update available for me.
 
Will all of the problems some folk have had after installing 4.3, sometimes necessitating factory resets of other phones, is it worthwhile to go for 4.3 or is it better to wait for 4.4 and hope that it has been debugged better?
 
smitty543 said:
Will all of the problems some folk have had after installing 4.3, sometimes necessitating factory resets of other phones, is it worthwhile to go for 4.3 or is it better to wait for 4.4 and hope that it has been debugged better?
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Not a lot in this release, so it sure would not hurt to wait, IMO. But it seems like folks are figuring out some pretty trouble free upgrade paths now, and the pain seems to be dying down. Of course, once you go, you're stuck with it. And Knox.

If you're not rooted though, I'd say go for it.
 
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