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Stock Android on Epic

I just want to be sure I am not missing anything - there are not any Epic roms out yet right? to put it a different way, every single epic owner on the planet is currently using the Sprint/Samsung factory version of Android 2.1, yes?
Have spent a number of hours on xda and google, but wanted to be sure I was correct on this one.
Just really anxious to get away from Touchwiz, it doesn't even really feel like Android.

dockular said:
I just want to be sure I am not missing anything - there are not any Epic roms out yet right? to put it a different way, every single epic owner on the planet is currently using the Sprint/Samsung factory version of Android 2.1, yes?
Have spent a number of hours on xda and google, but wanted to be sure I was correct on this one.
Just really anxious to get away from Touchwiz, it doesn't even really feel like Android.
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You're correct, no custom roms yet. In the meantime you could install a different launcher such as launcher pro and adw launcher to give your phone a more aosp look
Sent from the future...

Honestly, after I installed ADW Launcher, Beautiful Widgets, rooted the phone, and uninstalled all the Sprint crap with Root Manager / Titanium Backup, I'm actually happy with what's left of Touch Wiz. The dialer / contacts / integration etc is actually pretty nice. My phone looks like stock 2.2 now, but has a few nice improvements.

legacydevice said:
Honestly, after I installed ADW Launcher, Beautiful Widgets, rooted the phone, and uninstalled all the Sprint crap with Root Manager / Titanium Backup, I'm actually happy with what's left of Touch Wiz. The dialer / contacts / integration etc is actually pretty nice. My phone looks like stock 2.2 now, but has a few nice improvements.
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Agreed. I think touchwiz is like a double edgd sword. One the one hand it has a ton of features and usability improvements, on thbe other hand it looks horrible. Launcher pro gets rid of the ugly and adds even more features.
I wouldn't want stock android even if it were available.
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drizek said:
Agreed. I think touchwiz is like a double edgd sword. One the one hand it has a ton of features and usability improvements, on thbe other hand it looks horrible. Launcher pro gets rid of the ugly and adds even more features.
I wouldn't want stock android even if it were available.
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This is good info, thanks guys. maybe we'll get a chef who knows how to keep the good and eliminate the useless/ugly... and hopefully froyo to boot

I'm pretty happy with the stock ROM. I just use LauncherPro instead of Samsung's launcher and it's fantastic.

drizek said:
I wouldn't want stock android even if it were available.
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I agree 110%, there are some nice improvements once you remove all the crap

To switch to a stock vanilla launcher -- How To: Disable TouchWiz Epic 4G
Although it only has three screens, I've found it to be really really responsive and reliable. It always works very fast.

dockular said:
This is good info, thanks guys. maybe we'll get a chef who knows how to keep the good and eliminate the useless/ugly... and hopefully froyo to boot
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if we get good devs for the epic i may buy one. looks as there isn't as much interest as the evo has.

I can't wait to see some roms start to pop up, gonna be nice to have a working hotspot without paying 30 dollars a month
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Sooty305 said:
I can't wait to see some roms start to pop up, gonna be nice to have a working hotspot without paying 30 dollars a month
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I already got wifi tethering.....I'm rooted, so I installed the app. I'm now putting out a hotspot on 3 laptops in my home.
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[ROM] Final Froyo Release for Emerald by CCRoms V2.02 Next Up Gingerbread

Welcome to the final release of Froyo, by the CCRoms team, which means you guessed it, we're switching gears to Gingerbread after this release. With this release we managed to get the Evo/Emerald going as intended(sorry for the wait.) The Galaxy S style pulldown power widget has been implemented in this release as well. Gem settings have been completely re-written as well, to provide a more intuitive and easier to understand interface for everyone, and of course bug fixes abound.
downloads available at: http://www.ccroms.net
Note:
Droid X users, at this point there is nothign more we can find to do to improve battery life. When/If the battery starts to drain fast, gets sluggish, or gets hot, reboot the phone this will put the race condition causing all of these problems back to sleep, unfortunately there is no way to put the process back to sleep once it wakes up and if you kill the process kernel panics and the phone reboots anyway.

who ??? !! @[email protected]

Uh.... yeah... Im pretty sure this is for Droid X only.

No this is for evo. The emerald rom is evo, everything else is for droid
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adamfair said:
No this is for evo. The emerald rom is evo, everything else is for droid
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Gotcha. Didnt look at all of the different versions. Figured they had them all for every device.

adamfair said:
No this is for evo. The emerald rom is evo, everything else is for droid
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Its against the rules to post a rom that link to another site just to download. Would recommend just posting the actual download link and not a link to the site.

Need some screen shots please, have no idea what exactly this is.
from the darkside

From what it looks like, its just stock AOSP.

screenshots plz

This is a pretty solid rom. I tried it out back when the first Evo alphas showed up. We just haven't seen this dev much in the evo world.
If it means anything to people, Cyanogen even follows the original dev. He also posted about the dropdown a while back.
http://twitter.com/#!/cyanogen/status/24338230501449728

guess I'll give it a shot... Odd they say its a 2.2 Froyo rom with no way of getting 4G to work... hmm... And these guys are supposed to be great? We shall see... Downloading now.

MikeC84 said:
Its against the rules to post a rom that link to another site just to download. Would recommend just posting the actual download link and not a link to the site.
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Not my rom. I tried the alpha awhile back that's how,I know.
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pretty solid completely aosp rom. i like the how the notification button widget can scroll like on miui and galaxy s. only feature still missing in cm7.

poacher2010 said:
guess I'll give it a shot... Odd they say its a 2.2 Froyo rom with no way of getting 4G to work... hmm... And these guys are supposed to be great? We shall see... Downloading now.
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To be fair, i never said there's no way of ever getting 4G to work, i just said that there's no way to get it to work on this release of Emerald as I haven't looked into any of the work cyanogen has done with it. As I recall the wimax work they have been doing is still very alpha.
Regardless, I also don't ever recall toting myself as "great" either, so I don't really appreciate the sarcasm. I work hard to try to produce something that I feel is worthwhile and people might enjoy. Nothing more and nothing less.

Just flashed. Running pretty nice. Wish there was a clear vm option though. Im one of the unlucky phantom vm icon recipients. Otherwise very nice.
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ok cool... misunderstood

I'm so used to CM it is hard for me to get away, but this is a really nice clean ROM. It was probably the best non-CM AOSP build I have tried, and it doesn't have the little bit of theming that CM has. It lacks some of the special features of CM, but adds some cool ones, like a built in WiiMote app.
Kudos to the gem team.

I remember hearing about this rom awhile back. Doesn't hurt to have options for AOSP roms

cvpcs said:
To be fair, i never said there's no way of ever getting 4G to work, i just said that there's no way to get it to work on this release of Emerald as I haven't looked into any of the work cyanogen has done with it. As I recall the wimax work they have been doing is still very alpha.
Regardless, I also don't ever recall toting myself as "great" either, so I don't really appreciate the sarcasm. I work hard to try to produce something that I feel is worthwhile and people might enjoy. Nothing more and nothing less.
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i've used the emerald rom and it was very very nice!

I tried the alpha a few weeks ago...not quite ready for daily use, at that time...now, however, the rom looks a lot more polished.
I'm still a big fan of Ultimate Droid for my Evo, but this is another nice option.

[ROM] Sprint HTC Evo Shift v1.17.651.1 - STOCK, ROOTED

Here is a 100% stock rooted ROM v1.17.651.1
The ONLY change made was to root it.
No guarantees made or implied, use at your own risk.
Developers, themers, and anyone else feel free to do what you want with this!
There is no support here, so don't ask.

OP says it all. If you have a question, read the OP again.

Very nice to see you got a shift steelh look forward to working with you in the future
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bcnice20 said:
Very nice to see you got a shift steelh look forward to working with you in the future
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Not sure I'm going to keep it. I'm still partial to my EVO, this slide out keyboard wiggles too much and the screen is smaller. My hands are big so the original EVO was better.

Get the blue/black HTC case and your keyboard won't wiggle anymore. Really stiffens it up right well.
No suggestions for the smaller screen, but you do get used to it.
Keep your evo, give the shift to your wife! Then you can develop roms for both phones.

I see you closed your EVO rom thread. Does that mean you will be developing for the shift exclusively now? I can understand not wanting to stretch yourself too thin. FWIW, I have really enjoyed your rom and appreciate all of the hard work you put into it keeping it up to date.

My keyboard doesn't wiggle at all with no case. I don't know why it seems everyone else's is
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foxsdaddy67 said:
My keyboard doesn't wiggle at all with no case. I don't know why it seems everyone else's is
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+1
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Just a question, so this is 100% stock, so it has all the sprint apps loaded on the phone by default, but being rooted, you would be able to uninstall them? So you would end up with a completely stock phone, with apps you want uninstalled off the phone?

emkorial said:
Just a question, so this is 100% stock, so it has all the sprint apps loaded on the phone by default, but being rooted, you would be able to uninstall them? So you would end up with a completely stock phone, with apps you want uninstalled off the phone?
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Yeah. But you've gotta be rooted to flash it. So if you're already stock rooted you can just remove apps to your liking.
^ Shift Faced

Steel!! What's going on dude? Thanks for yet another base ROM. I think I might jump ship too but, for now, and thanks to you yet again, I now have a new base to port MattedBlues to
You're at it again! See ya around.

beatblaster said:
Steel!! What's going on dude? Thanks for yet another base ROM. I think I might jump ship too but, for now, and thanks to you yet again, I now have a new base to port MattedBlues to
You're at it again! See ya around.
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beatblaster,
probably wnt to use this one
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=948566
There were a few bugs in this one.

riggsandroid said:
beatblaster,
probably wnt to use this one
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=948566
There were a few bugs in this one.
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Thanks for pointing that out. I already grabbed the one you linked too for those "just in case" moments.

jesusice said:
Yeah. But you've gotta be rooted to flash it. So if you're already stock rooted you can just remove apps to your liking.
^ Shift Faced
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do you know offhand if i where to flash this, everything would be stock working with no problems? or still have to wait for a 100% AOSP rom working fully

Jo_795 said:
do you know offhand if i where to flash this, everything would be stock working with no problems? or still have to wait for a 100% AOSP rom working fully
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It should. This should be just as your phone was out the box except that it's rooted.
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Odds of Cyangen Rom?

Guys what are the odds of stock android rom hacked on to the Sammy Charge???
Wondering what others are thinking?
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The odds are better than the odds that you took time to read the Development board where there are 2 ROMs available
and most likely a 3rd one soon by the dev that did the Liberty ROM the Tesla ROM.....
But if all you care about is this CM ROM; go get something else.

I'm sure there will be one eventually, but if you want it within the next month, I'd look elsewhere, as there are no guarantees as to when it will come or how functional it will be.

Lol @ Shotgunsams great response.
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@shotgunsam...... Ummmm roms available. There all spruced up TouchWiz tweaks.
I am meaning a true Rom not built ontop of touchwiz.
Either i was looking for hope of one. Since the fascinate never got one.
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Uh, did you read the descriptions of the ROMs? DroidXCon gives you LauncherPro, other launchers soon to come, and imnuts has a streamlined ROM with the default AOSP launcher. Both completely remove TW launcher, according to the descriptions.
I too would love to see CM7 for this device. But the fact is, there are a few great ROM's available already, which is incredible considering the phone has only been out for two weeks! I really appreciate the hard work of the devs, and can't wait to see what's available in the coming weeks.

I got the DI when it first came out. First it was when will it get root. Root was a ***** becasue it was so random it worked with some sd cards and some it did not. There were methods of clicking your sd card in and out which actually worked for me. Not a day latter everyone was *****ing about roms. When will we get this or that rom. Look at almost 1 year later and there are crazy amount of roms. It takes time be patient and look forward to what is coming. Crap I am typing this and I don't even get my charge till tuesday. I hate touchwiz I will root,rom,replace launcher with one of my choosing. If I hate something will just get another phone 6 8 months down the road but really not concerned about it at this point. I think in time it will be like every other phone tons of awesome roms from great developers. Liberty was one of if not the best roms for the droidx which I own. Just knowing they same people that worked on that rom is doing stuff for charge has me stoked.

Guys im not knockin the devs. But everything is built off TOUCHWIZ just cause you get rid of the launcher its still touchwiz under the hood.
The fascinate never had a locked bootloader either and noone ever got a stock android rom working. So i was just asking if it would be possible here. Anyways no biggie....
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Sherwood1 said:
Guys im not knockin the devs. But everything is built off TOUCHWIZ just cause you get rid of the launcher its still touchwiz under the hood.
The fascinate never had a locked bootloader either and noone ever got a stock android rom working. So i was just asking if it would be possible here. Anyways no biggie....
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No way of saying will it get cwm7 or not. I will say the Droid x has a locked boot loader but Liberty rom was amazing. They put a ton of details and tweeks so that you could change things they way you want. As much as you could anyways with a locked boot loader. The developers of that rom did a great job with what they had to work with. Now if they are dev for this phone and it is fully unlocked. Wow no dobut will they put out a awesome rom for it. Now I have every intention to installing the best roms out for this phone when I get it tuesday. Developers deserve not only our thanks but donations as well. Thank you guys that put in all the hard work making our phones run crazy cool.

Unlike other skins tw is small and really is easy to remove. I've deleted alot and it still is functioning. Sense roms=200MB touchwiz=100MB and idk about blur
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Sherwood1 said:
Guys im not knockin the devs. But everything is built off TOUCHWIZ just cause you get rid of the launcher its still touchwiz under the hood.
The fascinate never had a locked bootloader either and noone ever got a stock android rom working. So i was just asking if it would be possible here. Anyways no biggie....
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Do you know why the fascinate still doesn't have a fully functional cm7? Samsung code. And lack of true full source... This too is a samsung device...

boostedjti said:
Do you know why the fascinate still doesn't have a fully functional cm7? Samsung code. And lack of true full source... This too is a samsung device...
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Well Samsung released the kernel source pretty much immediately didn't they? Also didn't Samsung say they were going to be better about releasing that kind of stuff, and also keeping bootloaders more open? So this could be a real possibility. Although if you know what your removing, I would assume like HTC Sense, you can pretty much take a TW based rom and completely remove TW and have it work fine.

boostedjti said:
Do you know why the fascinate still doesn't have a fully functional cm7? Samsung code. And lack of true full source... This too is a samsung device...
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587MB of source code goodness for the Charge can be found here:
https://opensource.samsung.com/
Search for SCH-I510

Alcoholic Dali said:
587MB of source code goodness for the Charge can be found here:
https://opensource.samsung.com/
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We need ril source, the old cdma ril is bad, and now with lte thrown in...

nosympathy said:
Well Samsung released the kernel source pretty much immediately didn't they? Also didn't Samsung say they were going to be better about releasing that kind of stuff, and also keeping bootloaders more open? So this could be a real possibility. Although if you know what your removing, I would assume like HTC Sense, you can pretty much take a TW based rom and completely remove TW and have it work fine.
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Kernel source isn't full source. Im not saying we won't get cm6/7, it's just going to take time.

Sherwood1 said:
Guys im not knockin the devs. But everything is built off TOUCHWIZ just cause you get rid of the launcher its still touchwiz under the hood.
The fascinate never had a locked bootloader either and noone ever got a stock android rom working. So i was just asking if it would be possible here. Anyways no biggie....
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You do know that the Fascinate is knocking on the door to get full CM7 support don't you? Honestly, if you didn't like the Fascinate, you won't like the Charge, and based on your posts here, I don't think you ever like any android phone as they all seem to have one problem or another.
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587MB of source code goodness for the Charge can be found here:
https://opensource.samsung.com/
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The reason the download is so big is that Samsung didn't clean out the kernel source tree after building, and tar'd up the source files as well as the built binaries (and all the other generated files). After you download, do "make distclean" and you'll save yourself some space and get rid of the useless files.

Sherwood1 said:
Guys what are the odds of stock android rom hacked on to the Sammy Charge???
Wondering what others are thinking?
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Apparently a lot of people are having trouble understanding the question. lol
I been wondering the same thing though. I have a good feeling about CM getting on bored eventually, it's what I'm looking foreward to the most with this phone. I miss having my notification bar on the bottom of my phone like I did with my D'Inc... lol
The only reason I say I "think" that it has a good chance getting CM support is because it seems, besides the Fascinate, they have been doing a great job cracking down on Samsung phones lately in the past few months. Besides the more phone supported by them, the better and the more recongnition they get. Until then ADW Ex is working fine for me.
Shout out to CM for all the awesome hard work.

@mozes316 cool. Nice of you to give a thought without going haywire on me like some others. Lol
Im a big android purest fan.
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mozes316 said:
Apparently a lot of people are having trouble understanding the question. lol
I been wondering the same thing though. I have a good feeling about CM getting on bored eventually, it's what I'm looking foreward to the most with this phone. I miss having my notification bar on the bottom of my phone like I did with my D'Inc... lol
The only reason I say I "think" that it has a good chance getting CM support is because it seems, besides the Fascinate, they have been doing a great job cracking down on Samsung phones lately in the past few months. Besides the more phone supported by them, the better and the more recongnition they get. Until then ADW Ex is working fine for me.
Shout out to CM for all the awesome hard work.
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You looked into the epic cm7 builds? Lots of issues.
Any cdma phone is having serious issues with the porting.
Not trying to flame anyone by any means. Just informing people of what I feel is overlooked...

boostedjti said:
You looked into the epic cm7 builds? Lots of issues.
Any cdma phone is having serious issues with the porting.
Not trying to flame anyone by any means. Just informing people of what I feel is overlooked...
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Coming from the original Incredible (CDMA) Rooting and ROMing was a breeze and also received CM support pretty quickly. If anything, I would think that the 4G radio would be the hardest work around. You never know though.

[Q] Theme Question/Request

Hi there, I'm VERY new. I just got a Samsung Droid, first droid phone ever. I've rooted my phone by flashing the Altered Beast ROM onto it.
I came across the AndroidCutee theme HERE and want to know if its compatible with my phone. If not how do I make it compatible or can someone make one like it for the Charge or another similary Girly theme?
Many Thanks!

jadaloves said:
Hi there, I'm VERY new. I just got a Samsung Droid, first droid phone ever. I've rooted my phone by flashing the Altered Beast ROM onto it.
I came across the AndroidCutee theme HERE and want to know if its compatible with my phone. If not how do I make it compatible or can someone make one like it for the Charge or another similary Girly theme?
Many Thanks!
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We only have one themer, and 2or3 rom developers right now. Im thinking the dev support will be slow and lacking with the charge. Samsung screwed too many people with a lack of updates. Dont use that theme...you will ruin your phone.

i sent him a request to see if i can port it.

suzook said:
We only have one themer, and 2or3 rom developers right now. Im thinking the dev support will be slow and lacking with the charge. Samsung screwed too many people with a lack of updates. Dont use that theme...you will ruin your phone.
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He said no.
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He said no.
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Hays really? Did he give a particular reason?
I find it annoying when people say no to ports without a particularly valid reason...like they are getting the phone themselves

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Hays really? Did he give a particular reason?
I find it annoying when people say no to ports without a particularly valid reason...like they are getting the phone themselves
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says he wants it for bamf only. he just released it or something.

I guess that is fair enough, but BAMF is only for the ThunderBolt, too bad since they have a great ROM on the TB, wish they work on the Charge as well.