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Here, I will share my Android tweaking experience.

Hi, I got Samsung Galaxy S4 mini GT-I9192 in 27th Dec 2017. At this time I don’t know about rooting and stuff. I don’t have a PC too. My device has Android 4.4.2(19) KitKat. The greatness of this android version is that, we can able to root it with one-click root apps like KingRoot or Kingo ROOT. I have rooted my device in this way.


Now I want to know about apps that use root to work. I found awesome apps like Adaway, Titanium Backup, MiXplorer, SD Maid, Xposed and its modules like GravityBox, APP Settings, InstallerOpt. I learned so many things like changing bootanimations_(removing .qmg support)_, mapping hardware keys, CSC Tweaks, Changing UI sounds, Overclocking with custom kernel (thanks to @alexax66 for this).


Now its time to flash custom recovery and custom roms. Here comes the big problem. I don’t have a PC. After so much of searching I found that I can able to flash partitions like boot, recovery without PC and custom recovery by using apps like Flashify, Root Essentials, Rashr, Kernel Adiutor, ROM Toolbox (as these apps basically use dd I think, which I don’t know about at that time). I have finally flashed TWRP img with Flashify.

Now comes the custom rom flashing. Here is very very big problem. I prepared well for flashing rom. I learned wiping, backing up etc., But it seems like my device is a weird one. Since it cannot boot_(bootloop)_ 98% custom roms available but other devices with same model do. At time I made a XDA account and made my first thread and post at here. At this time I really disappointed about this issue. I have tried many roms and nothing booted. One time RR 5.8.5 which is based on Nougat. But it is only one time happiness. Since after a reboot, the device goes to bootloop. I have to restore my nandroid backup made in TWRP to get back to original state.


Someday I found that CM13 which is based on Android Marshmallow boots successfully. Hurray!. All the things are working except SIM Services that is SIM Card is not detecting!. After so much time I found that only one SIM called TATA DOCOMO showed this. But Vodafone SIM worked fine. Also I found that nearly all the roms less than or equal to Android Marshmallow boots fine.


Now after so much flashing of different roms, I found that I can able to boot Nougat based ROMs by flashing testunlimited test kernel of Remix Kernel at here. I don’t know why this works and others does not work. Since I don’t have PC, I can’t able to take logs to report devs.

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