I'm a noob (very). I am seeing alot of screenshots where people have really nice looking notification bars. I especially like the ones with the blue colored wifi, signal status and battery icons.
Are those from phones with custom roms? Can I get a theme from the market that will do that for me?
I am fully rooted but very new and feel I'm not ready to flash "stuff" yet...I paid $500 for our phone. I'm studying hard thought.
If anyone knows where I can download and an app that can make my notification bar look fancy I would greatly appreciate any info or links.
Thank you
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What version of android are you running? 2.2?
Edit: Also what kind of phone do you have?
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Not an app. A theme that you have to flash. Make sure its compatible with your current rom
Typed by Z using the Gingerbread keyboard.
I'm stock 2.2 froyo. Rooted. Bloat free. Fota fixed. Thats all. Very new but eager to learn
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Thank you for your replies. I couldn't find anything on the market. The people in these forums seen to know where everything is.
I was hoping someone would attach a download. Lol. I'm not lazy just cautious. I don't want to find out things the expressive way.
Atleast this is helping me build up my ten posts so when I need serious help I'll be able to ask.
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I'm stock 2.2 froyo. Rooted. Bloat free. Fota fixed. Thats all. Very new but eager to learn
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Well to the best of my knowledge you can't really tinker with your status bar until you have a custom rom and for the most options preferrably one based off of a Gingerbread (2.3 +) build. If you are already rooted then flashing roms is really safe. Do you have Clockwork Mod Recovery?
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@Pagan. Are you trolling? Just trying to learn the lingo and figure things out. What is trolling in a forum?
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@Pagan. Are you trolling? Just trying to learn the lingo and figure things out. What is trolling in a forum?
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Hahaha. No I wouldn't consider it trolling lol. Trolling would be if someone came into your thread and started talking crap like "Why don't you use the search function noob!" Instead of trying to help you out. I mean I really hope I'm not trolling you I'm sincerely trying to help you out cuz at one point we were all new at this
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@Pagan. Are you trolling? Just trying to learn the lingo and figure things out. What is trolling in a forum?
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hahaha! thanks, you made my day.
oh noes! have i become a troll?!
@pagan HTC Vision. I only asked if you were trolling my forum because after I posted "I'm stock 2.2 froyo. Rooted. Bloat free. Fota fixed. Thats all. Very eager to learn"
You asked me if I have ClockworkMod Recovery. I'm stock how can I have CWM?...maybe you didn't read before you replied. It happens...you also said flashing roms is really safe. So a noob (very) like can flash easily?
Its all good. Lol..
I spend most of my free time racing (at the helm) sailboats. J22's (with spinnaker) mainly.
However I'm a diletante who has recently discovered modifying android phones. I am intrigued. I Want to show people what people are doing. Their genius.. and show off MY phone. I want to be able to do a what you all are doing...
You have gingerbread 2.3 is that custom? Or can I buy it stock?
Thanks for your replies. For real.
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Just because you're still running the stock rom doesn't preclude you from having clockwork mod recovery, when you rooted an app called "Superuser" should have been installed on your device. Also you may have an app called "Rom Manager" installed as well, if you don't have that one it's free in the market (and I highly suggest getting it, it is very necessary). Check to see if you have the rom manager app and let me know, if you don't, then download it from market and post back. I'll help you get clockwork mod recovery up and running, then we'll get you a basic understanding of all its functions. After that you can back up your device and get you a custom rom installed.
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@Jerry D - It looks like you have the Galaxy S 4G. If that is the phone you have, Clockwork is not quite ready for our phones. We do not have any custom rom's available at this time. So there is no way to change your notification bar.
@golmar88. Thanks for your reply. I have been reading or forum multiple times a day for a couple of weeks now and definitely up to date on our progress.
I'm that noob who is going to study and wait for something I can handle....
I saw rom manager on the market and thought wow this will be cool. I'll root and I'll have a "rom of the day". Lol.
I didn't know the work involved or the risk. After reading what is going on here I'm "hooked". I love learning new things and can't wait until I know a fraction of what some people on here know. I can't wait to flash my first rom.
Thanks again for all your help!
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I know right?! As you can see, I'm a junkie (and I don't know anything either). I'm on here pretty much all day everyday, and we don't even really have any development to speak of.
Hopefully we'll get some stuff before too long.
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What, if any, mods, themes, boot animations, etc will work on the new (not the alpha) uscc mesmerize froyo rom?
I'm sorry if starting a new thread was the wrong way to ask this, but truth be told I'm sure a lot of people are wondering the same thing, and as of yet there is no information about this.
Thanks in advance, you devs are always quick to respond and knowledgeable.
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The stock one can't be themed bc it's not deodexed, that will be forthcoming. Once the deodexed one is out we can start porting
...I feel like I should have known that! Haha thank you.
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...I feel like I should have known that! Haha thank you.
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There is confusion because others try things they shouldn't, like using roms for other phones (fascinate, etc.), which may work in part - but hardly ever do in whole and usually are a pain to work with. Best bet is to stay tuned to the android dev forum, for the new rom that will come out. After that we will be porting away and posting in the theme forum.
Im fairly new to this section of the forums most of my hangout is on the Gtablet side. But what is needed to get this phone up to gingerbread? What are we lacking?
ohhh please...
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Not getting the sarcasm here? I asked a simple question which is not anywhere in this development forum I searched. The Gtab came with 2.2 and has successfully been updated to 2.3 and they are now working on a honeycomb port missing on a few things atm. Whats holding the s4g back?
I believe people are going to get upset with you posting this here.
We are missing the neccesary files from Samsung.
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Not understanding that we have the source from samsung but we are still missing what is required. Why would people seriously get mad?
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Not understanding that we have the source from samsung but we are still missing what is required. Why would people seriously get mad?
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Because it's been asked before.
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That and questions belong in the general section. It helps keep the dev section clean.
Thanks
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From a development point... What is still needed to get this ball rolling? I think the question is appropriate for the development section as its not "who is working on gb" or "is CM coming".
Definetly should be in the general section, but the main thing were missing is a final version of CWM and the devs, the ones we have are great but there time is consumed doing other things. I assume its going to be a while before we get any good roms
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Just to add I don't think anyone is working on froyo roms much less gb. Point of this story is if you want custom roms ditch this phone
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There is no GB development, because there are almost no developers for this phone.
The two active developers don't even have a SGS 4g (well, krylon has a loaner)....
I thought the biggest reason would be that we have no gingerbread updated from Samsung that are compatible with our phone. In order to get gingerbread right now, we would have to port over one from another Samsung device and then make it compatible with ours. Which isn't easy at all from my understanding.
That being said, we do have a small community.
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Understandable, but we dont need a source from samsung for gingerbread. Gtab devs made a GB rom without anything being compatible and are moving to honeycomb with out official support from nvidia or viewsong for either of these roms.
I guess Ill get back to working with the cyanogen I have now to start tweaking but CWM is working on my phone at least.
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Understandable, but we dont need a source from samsung for gingerbread. Gtab devs made a GB rom without anything being compatible and are moving to honeycomb with out official support from nvidia or viewsong for either of these roms.
I guess Ill get back to working with the cyanogen I have now to start tweaking but CWM is working on my phone at least.
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r u working on a rom...? do u need some assistance? i'm not super at programming but willing to learn bcuz sgs4g needs something awesome thats long awaited
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Understandable, but we dont need a source from samsung for gingerbread. Gtab devs made a GB rom without anything being compatible and are moving to honeycomb with out official support from nvidia or viewsong for either of these roms.
I guess Ill get back to working with the cyanogen I have now to start tweaking but CWM is working on my phone at least.
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This is not to flame you, but any questions like this shouldn't be asked in development. It clutters the development forum. It needs to be posted in the "General" section.
This question has been asked there several times as well.
#1 Getting GB to work on any samsung phone currently is a monster of a task. Just read up on the nightlies that CyanogenMod is putting out now for the Captivate. Android 2.3.4 via CM 7 running on Captivate.
#2 The SGS4G is more similar to the Epic 4G than the Vibrant. That being said read what was said from ciwrl (CM Dev Team): "epic is slated for last…its full of nasty hacks"
Hope that answers your questions. Please post in General next time.
Are there even any ROMs out there for this phone? Is there even a CyanogenMod?
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Are there even any ROMs out there for this phone? Is there even a CyanogenMod?
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None at the moment. CWM is priority number one with the current Devs, although a few other mods coming out.
It hardly seems priority. Krylon put it on hold for Bionix and whatever project he's on now
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It hardly seems priority. Krylon put it on hold for Bionix and whatever project he's on now
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Negativity sucks. :-(
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It hardly seems priority. Krylon put it on hold for Bionix and whatever project he's on now
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For one, you have no idea what is going on.
For two, comments like that don't make any dev work faster. Devs have NO obligation to help the masses. Why piss off some one that is helping? Because your impatient? Relax bud. When its done its done. ;-)
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I'm new to the sidekick scene, what's a good rom to flash.
There is a good bunch. Touchmiuiwiz , gingerclone , clean fusion , lighting rom, smooth maximus, n etc
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There is a good bunch. Touchmiuiwiz , gingerclone , clean fusion , lighting rom, smooth maximus, n etc
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which one do you recommand?
I can't speak for all of them as I haven't tried them all. But I can submit that there have been some ongoing crash issues with Gingerclone. I'm running Clean Fusion currently. Only things I've had an issue with is one background (that is just as likely an issue with the background), and no forming groups within your contact list, but otherwise is running great.
Touch is the next one I would try going by what little I've heard. Sorry I can't be of much help.
Really, you're best bet might be just to try them for yourself and see which one you like best, as they all look and run a little differently, though obviously much better than the stock ROM. Just make sure you get a full rooted backup before you use something, so you know you're not going to lose anything.
~ The guide Yogi and I put together has links to the main ROMs.. possibly not Lighting though.
I used. Lighting , ginger n touchmiui, I like touchmiui the best then lighting , btw ginger n touchmiui are the same rom just different colors blue vs green n theme differently
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seriously? another one of these?!?!
I see one of these like every week now
"Hey what's up? I'm new, what's a good ROM?"
You need to search before posting because this question has been asked a dozen times already.
You are cluttering up our forums with this garbage, if you wanna know what roms are good then try reading the threads on them or better yet flash them and see what you like, we only have a few
This is not facebook and we don't need you to start a new thread unless you have a legitimate reason like a question that HAS NOT beeen asked before, these threads are not wal posts and they bury the good information we have and make the forum difficult to navigate
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I see one of these like every week now
"Hey what's up? I'm new, what's a good ROM?"
You need to search before posting because this question has been asked a dozen times already.
You are cluttering up our forums with this garbage, if you wanna know what roms are good then try reading the threads on them or better yet flash them and see what you like, we only have a few
This is not facebook and we don't need you to start a new thread unless you have a legitimate reason like a question that HAS NOT beeen asked before, these threads are not wal posts and they bury the good information we have and make the forum difficult to navigate
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Sorry bud.. didn't mean to step on YOUR foot.. anyway to everybody that replied back thank you very much
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Don't listen to him. Everyone (almost) here are jerks. In my experience with the roms on here, I recommend you stay on stock with root. If you insist on a custom rom then I recommend probably GingerClone. Stock is the best thing for this phone for now. Anything else has to many issues after some time using them. No offense to the developers. They do what they can.
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from the looks of it, I think the lightning rom is a clean, simple and reliable ROM
I think I'm a start deving.. shoot it won't hurt to try
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I think I'm a start deving.. shoot it won't hurt to try
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1192493
This should help get you started
Thanks man
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Since we can't use a ROM manager to flash, does anyone know of any of the developers having a "md5" file available to be flashed with Odin?
MD5 is just a hash used as to check data errors - basically to make sure you're not flashing an incomplete or corrupted file. I gather you're asking if there is an Android 4.0 based ROM that can be flashed on our phones? The answer is no. It's being worked on, but currently the best you can do is to make sure you're on the most up to date release for the Charge (EP4D) and then flash an ICS theme and then change launchers to ADW or Go Launcher and install an ICS theme for the launcher.
Thanks for the information. That's what I figured but I was trying to be optimistic. I am currently running Humble 5.0 and it has been great. I have the inability to stay stock and am looking forward to having ICS. Especially since I am so far out for an upgrade and don't have copious amounts of cash lying around to buy a Nexus out of contract. Thanks again, I appreciate it.
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Thanks for the information. That's what I figured but I was trying to be optimistic. I am currently running Humble 5.0 and it has been great. I have the inability to stay stock and am looking forward to having ICS. Especially since I am so far out for an upgrade and don't have copious amounts of cash lying around to buy a Nexus out of contract. Thanks again, I appreciate it.
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Just keep in mind, "being worked on" means there is an attempt being made to get it booting. IF that happens (which is by no means a guarantee), there is still a lot of work to do to make it fully functional. I wouldn't expect to ever have ICS. If we do, that's awesome. Just don't expect it.
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MD5 is just a hash used as to check data errors - basically to make sure you're not flashing an incomplete or corrupted file. I gather you're asking if there is an Android 4.0 based ROM that can be flashed on our phones? The answer is no. It's being worked on, but currently the best you can do is to make sure you're on the most up to date release for the Charge (EP4D) and then flash an ICS theme and then change launchers to ADW or Go Launcher and install an ICS theme for the launcher.
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I didn't think you could give this kind of reply on xda? Aren't you supposed to say something about being tired of noobs not using the search and end by telling the guy to port ICS on his own?? If you don't, who (besides 100 other users) will?
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I didn't think you could give this kind of reply on xda? Aren't you supposed to say something about being tired of noobs not using the search and end by telling the guy to port ICS on his own?? If you don't, who (besides 100 other users) will?
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He caught me at a moment of weakness.
I did do a search of the other forums before I posted this thread. I may be a noob however.I'm not an idiot and nor will stand to be treated like one. I posted the thread because I could find nothing addressing my specific question regarding a "md5" file. I appreciate Charlie_c getting back to me with a simple response and the subject was done.
This is now one forum less I will be following.
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This is now one forum less I will be following.
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OH GOD THE HORROR
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I did do a search of the other forums before I posted this thread. I may be a noob however.I'm not an idiot and nor will stand to be treated like one. I posted the thread because I could find nothing addressing my specific question regarding a "md5" file. I appreciate Charlie_c getting back to me with a simple response and the subject was done.
This is now one forum less I will be following.
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Not to refute your claim to intelligence, but I was being sarcastic in a way to praise Charlie for being polite to you. I'm sorry you took it the wrong way.
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Wow, people get a good answer and then complain? Suck it up and be thankful people are willing to explain something to you that you otherwise would have had to spend your own time researching...
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I did do a search of the other forums before I posted this thread. I may be a noob however.I'm not an idiot and nor will stand to be treated like one. I posted the thread because I could find nothing addressing my specific question regarding a "md5" file. I appreciate Charlie_c getting back to me with a simple response and the subject was done.
This is now one forum less I will be following.
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You missed the sarcasm unfortunately.
That's a shame considering the awesomeness of knowledge and helpfulness contained within these forums!
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You missed the sarcasm unfortunately.
That's a shame considering the awesomeness of knowledge and helpfulness contained within these forums!
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lol right? and the kid only has 4 post so i hardly belive the kid saying he "follows" this site..hes def a nub
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1323941
As per subject, Can ANYONE please finish what Raver is doing????
Really desperate for MIUI rom for SGS 4G????
I think, THINK, Raver of still working on that rom, i just think that the thread got locked because of a flamer(s) causing arguments.
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I hope he is...its been a while
I doubt it anyone delivering on that,first waas the source..now whats holding it back..i understand the whole "outside life" excuse..would be better to just say i cant do it etcc..than keeping community false hope
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I have PM raver and asking that If I could give him any help to make it done
Although I am a newbiee in this area, Im willing to give it a shot..
There are many people working on many projects... I would just relax and enjoy what's available for now.
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You should man , but for me I am gonna do something for this MIUI to be fully function
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You should man , but for me I am gonna do something for this MIUI to be fully function
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Who's to say i'm not already?
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I doubt it anyone delivering on that,first waas the source..now whats holding it back..i understand the whole "outside life" excuse..would be better to just say i cant do it etcc..than keeping community false hope
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Excuse us for haveing lifes
Dax, it wouldn't seem reliable.
We know Raver can do everything...
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Dax, it wouldn't seem reliable.
We know Raver can do everything...
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Lol i cant do everything i do in fact suck at kernels
Its been a while since MIUI was "started"... I totally forgot about it. :-/ This sgs4g is my first android phone so I have never used it, neither CM... but im enjoying what we have so anything that comes next its extra.
Question is, do you guys want a good solid working miui or a hacked together hardly usable pos miui? Things take time, and a lot of the additions I've seen coming out lately are all stepping stones. Hassling our devs isn't going to speed anything up.
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Its been a while since MIUI was "started"... I totally forgot about it. :-/ This sgs4g is my first android phone so I have never used it, neither CM... but im enjoying what we have so anything that comes next its extra.
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Valhalla is pretty close to what you can do with CM. The real different is the t-mobile theme engine built in, and a few more tweaks. The only true benefit of cyanogenmod would be official support, so we would always be upgraded to the next OS. I'm not sure how CM9 will look though- it will be impressive no doubt.
Truth be told I do not know how they decide who gets official support. It is nice because you almost always have the latest OS before anyone. Then again, people tend to get bored with almost everything, if we had CM, we would probably still be switching to different roms. For example, I switched to Blandroid on my Nexus One because I would tired of CM. I switched back again, but you get my point.
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Excuse us for haveing lifes
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At some point will MIUI show up?? DOUBT IT LIKE I SAID
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At some point will MIUI show up?? DOUBT IT LIKE I SAID
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Wait u got rid of your 4g why u still here.... no offence u have no idea what plans myself krylon bevh desexton n airflip have
Not trying to be a prick but really
Also when we got source that was win... even tho it wasnt complete n had to use the i9k to finish parts of the stock kernel...
Also we need a more updated up stream for u boot n cm7 asop kernel before the rom will be proper this takes time
Mods delete this thread before the trolls really come out to play -_-
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Raver your work speaks for itself. You are a badass. Let others deal with chumps like daneedstobeexecutedforbeingatrollingdick-er.
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Mods delete this thread before the trolls really come out to play -_-
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I second the motion that this thread be closed. Please. Thank you. @Raver, dude you really don't need to justify yourself to trolls. Your past and present work speaks for itself!
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Mods delete this thread before the trolls really come out to play -_-
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Lets hope Neyo doesn't see this. -_-
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