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[Droid Newby]

Hi all,
I hope you can help me. I purchased a rooted Galaxy s4 i9502 2 months ago. From the first day I noticed it would occasionally restart itself. It started occurring more and more frequently, more than 10 times a day. Then the battery started draining incredibly fast--100% to empty in less than 2 hours with only a few phone calls. I read through the GS4 forums and I think my problem is with a defective battery (it is swollen, can easily spin) so I've ordered a new one. In the meantime, I thought I'd try a factory reset to see if it would help with the frequent resets. Big mistake. Apparently the person who rooted the phone erased the keyboard and downloaded a 3rd party keyboard. I now have no keyboard and cannot log into google play or samsung to download a new one. How do I get around this problem?

 

[BRAINZ2013]

Hello and welcome to the forums. I see your having trouble with a android device . Looks as if your keyboard is missing . One way to repair this is download a samsung keyboard and a file or root explorer to the tip of the sd card. Boot phone up as normal and go into the file /root explorer take the app samsung keyboard and copy and paste into the system apps .next set the permission to rw-r-r . Now power off the device aka reboot and bam u have a keyboard.

Also if you don't like the current rom on the phone you can always change it to something u like .

 

[ironass]

Hi all,
I hope you can help me. I purchased a rooted Galaxy s4 i9502 2 months ago.

The GT-i9502 is an octa core variant for China, Unicom.

From the first day I noticed it would occasionally restart itself. It started occurring more and more frequently, more than 10 times a day. Then the battery started draining incredibly fast--100% to empty in less than 2 hours with only a few phone calls. I read through the GS4 forums and I think my problem is with a defective battery (it is swollen, can easily spin) so I've ordered a new one.

It does sound likely that it is a battery problem from what you have described. Hopefully, a new battery will solve your problem.

In the meantime, I thought I'd try a factory reset to see if it would help with the frequent resets. Big mistake. Apparently the person who rooted the phone erased the keyboard and downloaded a 3rd party keyboard. I now have no keyboard and cannot log into google play or samsung to download a new one. How do I get around this problem?

My guess is that it was rooted by the previous owner in an attempt to access the Google Play Store and other features that are removed from Unicom handsets. By factory resetting it you have removed some of the features that the previous owner had modded the phone with. You can download and install the Google Play Store .apk, here. It is not the latest but it should update itself after installation. Once installed you can sign in and access lots of different keyboards that are available on the Play Store, such as SwiftKey.

 

[Droid Newby]

Pardon my ignorance, but what do you mean by the tip of the SD card?

 

[BRAINZ2013]

On the card not inside any folders