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Download PhilZ Touch CWM for Galaxy S4

PhilZ Touch 5 Recovery is one of my favourite custom recoveries for Samsung Galaxy Series. Why? exFAT partition support on external SD card. Yes, that’s the main reason that I always have PhilZ Touch CWM installed. And now it is on my Samsung Galaxy S4 GT-I9500 (PhilZ Touch CWM supports GT-I9505 too). PhilZ Touch is a CWM Advanced Edition that loaded with extra features compare to official ClockworkMod Recovery. As the name applies, it supports touch interface in addition to hardware keys. And it has Aroma File Manager built-in. Besides, it also has TWRP backup and restore support. Check out all the features below…

PhilZ Touch CWM for Samsung Galaxy S4

Samsung Galaxy S4 GT-I9500 Benchmarks

How does the latest Samsung flagship smartphone ~ Samsung Galaxy S4 GT-I9500 performs? Galaxy S4 I9500 is powered by Samsung own SOC Exynos 5 Octa which has 1.6 quad-core ARM Cortex-A15 and 1.2 GHz quad-core ARM Cortex-A7. And using PowerVR SGX544MP3 GPU. Does ARM big.LITTLE heterogeneous architecture really help to enhance Galaxy S4 speed and battery life? Let’s these synthetic benchmarks tell you…

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Download individual CSC packages for Samsung Galaxy S3

You can only change CSC if your current Samsung Galaxy S III firmware has MultiCSC. But it is not true anymore with individual CSC packages for GT-I9300 and GT-I9305. Yes, no need to depend on CSC Changer and you can install CSC that you want with custom recovery like CWM or TWRP. As usual, CSC applies to Samsung Based ROM only and will not work on CM, AOSP or AOKP ROM. And only apply it if you know what you are doing…

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Multi CSC packages for Samsung Galaxy S3

CF-Auto-Root supports Galaxy S4 GT-I9500 now

Developer Chainfire is back from holidays. And he brings along a gift to all Samsung Galaxy S4 GT-I9500 users. Yes, CF-Auto-Root supports Galaxy S4 I9500 model now. That’s the good news that everyone should rejoice, right? Yes, but I saw a comment from XDA Forum Taiwan user, sorg ~ Triangle Away is not possible anymore with I9500 stock bootloader due to boot block is hardware write protection. Huh? Is that true? Anyway, I have no chance to turning back now because my Galaxy S4 is already rooted and loaded with CWM. Warranty is already void but luckily Samsung Malaysia does not care much about rooting. And still accept to service for free even it is rooted based on several users’ feedback.

Test all Samsung Galaxy S4 hardware functions before buy it

Always test Samsung Android devices before buy it (only valid for shop purchase though). Yes, this applies to Samsung flagship Galaxy S4 too. Samsung makes a great tool for them to check the hardware quality at test development stage. And you can use it to test too. The application is called FactoryKeystring. Basically, it covers all the hardware function tests for Galaxy S4. You can check 1080p Full HD Super AMOLED screen with Red, Green, Blue, Receiver (white) and Vibration (black) colour. Make sure that there is no dead or bright pixel. That’s the first thing I will do. I really hate dead pixel as it is very annoying. There are other tests like Dimming, Touch and TSP Hovering to test the screen function as well. Front and back camera can be tested with Mega cam and Front cam. Both speakers’ tests are included too. Sleep, Sub key, LED, IR LED, LOW FREQUENCY, Barcode Emulator and SensorHub Test are the rest of the tests. Test all of them if you can.

Samsung Galaxy S4 hardware tests

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