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Help Possible to go back to 4.2.2?

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hongman

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Hi all

I was extremely happy with my S4 right up until it fried itself with the swollen battery issue.

After getting my phone back from warranty repair they had upgraded it to 4.3.

I immediately rooted this and got my phone back to how it was with my custom settings and now discovering loads of stuff is broke.

The biggest issue (which could well be the cause of many other little bugs) is that my SD Card won't stay writable for longer than a few minutes. I have to unmount and mount it again which is just ridiculous.

Bluetooth stopped working. When I try to turn it on it just freezes for a few seconds and then remains off.

Ringtone will not change.

And then some...

My phone says bought independent of the carrier.

So... Any way to revert this?
 
hongman said:
Hi all

I was extremely happy with my S4 right up until it fried itself with the swollen battery issue.

After getting my phone back from warranty repair they had upgraded it to 4.3.

I immediately rooted this and got my phone back to how it was with my custom settings and now discovering loads of stuff is broke.
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So, those things were all broken on the stock Samsung firmware when it was returned to you, before you rooted and tripped your Knox warranty, were they?

It couldn't just be that the rooting process or maybe flashing 4.2.2 backups on to 4.3 firmware caused the issues by any chance. ;)

So... Any way to revert this?
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Afraid not. See #1.1 of Knox Security & locked bootloader on new firmwares.
 
The SD Card issue was there from the start, bluetooth stopped working after root etc.

What is my best course of action - reload stock 4.3, root and re install and configure stuff manually, checking each time nothing is broken?
 
not sure about the SD card issue - but I'd suspect if the root broke bluetooth then I'd wipe and start with a fresh stock and see if all is working. Like Ironass said it maybe your backups that cause an issue. I'm running the 4.3 and have no issues but then I'm not a power user
 
As fontburn states, you should do a format of internal and external memory and a Factory Data Reset. Copy your files back but not settings to your external SD card and re-download your apps from the Play Store and set them up again, afresh. Do not use any backups/settings from the old software platform, 4.2.2 and then re-root.

Full wipe and vanilla install
 
Thanks. I have copied my files off the SD Card and formatted it, now copying music etc back on. When I get in I will flash back to stock and root it again
 
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