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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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touchwiz 4 port for infuse??

im wondering if anybody will port touchwiz 4 to the infuse its on just about every other phone and i know the infuse is relatively new still, but we have a few roms already and lots of dev that was done faster than normal so i don't see why it would take long to port a launcher. im not a dev so i don't really know but i would love if the tw4 launcher would come to infuse.

derik.p said:
im wondering if anybody will port touchwiz 4 to the infuse its on just about every other phone and i know the infuse is relatively new still, but we have a few roms already and lots of dev that was done faster than normal so i don't see why it would take long to port a launcher. im not a dev so i don't really know but i would love if the tw4 launcher would come to infuse.
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yes it was done on the vibrant for 2.2 so it is posible, just needs some libs and i think a framwork or services.jar mod or something. nopcodex indicated it might added to his bionix infinity rom. i wouldnt be surprised if mikey mike does the same.

touchwiz 4 features??
Hi all,
I am from india. i wanted to know whether the touchwiz 4 is modified for infuse or is directly taken from samsung galaxy s2?
I am asking this coz in touch wiz there is 3G 324M integration for Native video calling using phone calls as 3G services.
waiting for the reply!?!?

derik.p said:
im wondering if anybody will port touchwiz 4 to the infuse its on just about every other phone and i know the infuse is relatively new still, but we have a few roms already and lots of dev that was done faster than normal so i don't see why it would take long to port a launcher. im not a dev so i don't really know but i would love if the tw4 launcher would come to infuse.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1061883
Try that. I used it for about a week it's actually quite smooth

I love this launcher, they have made so much progress with it. Very smooth.
You can back-up your homescreen and other pages so after you flash a new rom and reinstall your apps you go into the launcher settings hit restore! Voila all your pages/homescreen are back to your preferences. It even puts your widgets back where they belong!
Love it! I'll never flash without it!
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I997 using XDA App

thank you for your work!

sshukrun said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1061883
Try that. I used it for about a week it's actually quite smooth
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I use this launcher as well and its great when it works, but at least a couple of times a day for no reason at all it will slow down and/or freeze up and I have to wait for abit for my phone to respond again. And sometimes it will crash as well and my phone will reboot.

Yeah, that happened to me too.
I love 4.0, but I couldn't stand that random reboots so I went back to Launcher Pro. I think I read somewhere that the reboots happen when your phone uses too much resources.

Using go launcher ex myself. A lot of themes online and it has the option to back up the launcher so that after a flash you can go right back to your home screens

Features Missing on G2X?

Hi..
I just got an LG G2X with GB 2.3.3 update installed stock.
1. I've noticed the 1080p/24fps option is missing on the video camera settings.
2. The touch focus is not working either. It's supposed to focus while recording video and you touch the screen.
I bought the phone because of these features, so Im very disappointed they are not included. Any ideas.

All those features were present with Froyo. So what you really want is the LG camera app. After the Gingerbread update it was replaced by the Google camera app.
But you can flash your phone with Weapon G2X 2.5 which has the LG camera app included.

babymatteo said:
All those features were present with Froyo. So what you really want is the LG camera app. After the Gingerbread update it was replaced by the Google camera app.
But you can flash your phone with Weapon G2X 2.5 which has the LG camera app included.
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Why would LG do that? I mean, why put a rom which disables the features that give value to the phone such as 1080p video?....Not only that, like I mentioned before, I bought the phone for the features and now what?..
That means that a person that doesn't know how to flash a different ROM is screwed...so they end up returning the phone...this is really bad business... If LG needed to flash a new ROM to fix all bugs, they shouldve given us a complete ROM which would have all the features the phone has.
i dont want to go install the old rom due to all the bugs it has. So, in other words.. this phone is most likely going back.

[quoteHi..
I just got an LG G2X with GB 2.3.3 update installed stock.
1. I've noticed the 1080p/24fps option is missing on the video camera settings.
2. The touch focus is not working either. It's supposed to focus while recording video and you touch the screen.
I bought the phone because of these features, so Im very disappointed they are not included. Any ideas.[/quote]
I know, I would be dissapointed as well.
What you can do is either what the previous poster said or you could flash a Froyo ROM which would have all the features that you bought this phone for.
If you need help PM me and I could help you flashing your phone and doing all those good things

moshe22 said:
[quoteHi..
I know, I would be dissapointed as well.
What you can do is either what the previous poster said or you could flash a Froyo ROM which would have all the features that you bought this phone for.
If you need help PM me and I could help you flashing your phone and doing all those good things
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Well.. I know how to flash roms.. I just need to know where I can find them and which ones have the least bugs..I would appreciate it if you can tell me where to find them.
I just dont want to flash an old rom which is the reason LG had to update the G2X due to all the bugs froyo has.
..thanks.

magdiel1975 said:
Well.. I know how to flash roms.. I just need to know where I can find them and which ones have the least bugs..I would appreciate it if you can tell me where to find them.
I just dont want to flash an old rom which is the reason LG had to update the G2X due to all the bugs froyo has.
..thanks.
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I felt the same way you do after i did the Gingerbread update.
But here's the link to the ROM you'd be interested to: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1207125
It's an AWESOME ROM!
Match it with this Kernel and you have a pretty nice handset:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1102720

babymatteo said:
I felt the same way you do after i did the Gingerbread update.
But here's the link to the ROM you'd be interested to: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1207125
It's an AWESOME ROM!
Match it with this Kernel and you have a pretty nice handset:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1102720
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Thanks dude... do you know anything about recording 1080p/30 fps on the g2x... someone told me that somewhere in xda there is something about it?
And how come you have 2.3.5 CM7 nightly..is that better?

With the Gingerbread google camera it already allows you to record in 1080p HD 30/fps its just not showed as 1080p.
I like the CM7 2.3.5 only because i think it's a more stable ROM..but you won't be able to flash the LG camera app. For some reason the LG Camera app is not compatible with 2.3.5 or CM7 base ROMs.
But i'm actually now running Eaglesblood 2.3.5 which is a CM7 base...so i have the best of both worlds.

babymatteo said:
With the Gingerbread google camera it already allows you to record in 1080p HD 30/fps its just not showed as 1080p.
I like the CM7 2.3.5 only because i think it's a more stable ROM..but you won't be able to flash the LG camera app. For some reason the LG Camera app is not compatible with 2.3.5 or CM7 base ROMs.
But i'm actually now running Eaglesblood 2.3.5 which is a CM7 base...so i have the best of both worlds.
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what about touch focus?... does it work with your rom.. like.. when you're recording and you touch the screen does it focus on a close object?
also...
what about Netflix..does it work properly for you.. It plays for me but fast speed.

And there are some really cool themes for the weapon rom in the themes section, or follow my sig.
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magdiel1975 said:
what about touch focus?... does it work with your rom.. like.. when you're recording and you touch the screen does it focus on a close object?
also...
what about Netflix..does it work properly for you.. It plays for me but fast speed.
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Touch focus on video doesn't work for me but it does for camera. And honestly i have no complains except that i don't have a choice of storage..whether to SD or Internal.
Haven't really tried Netflix yet...but i will.
And just like what mmapcpro said...Weapon has some pretty sick themes.

I get a black screen after flashing the kernel..it wont boot up... I wiped cache. any ideas?

magdiel1975 said:
I get a black screen after flashing the kernel..it wont boot up... I wiped cache. any ideas?
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Did you wipe Dalvik too? If not try that as well

I also noticed it is missing a portable kegerator with some type of high speed low drag sup-space link to an endless supply of Sam Adams. Oh well guess we can't win them all

Flak0 made the original lg can app for the ota update. Works 100% except the ffc cam is buggy
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Is the update really worth it?

Is it worth leaving miui for the gingerbread update?
Most stable
Fully customizable
Galnet MIUI

If you want a samsung based rom flash zeus or bionix they are both great roms and have the firmware that you would be upgrading to with kies. Much easier to just flash one of those roms

Auto-Android said:
Is it worth leaving miui for the gingerbread update?
Most stable
Fully customizable
Galnet MIUI
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no, unless you like hdmi and need bluetooth calling. im half tempted to go aosp myself soon. but i wish it could be in the form of ics....

Dani897 said:
no, unless you like hdmi and need bluetooth calling. im half tempted to go aosp myself soon. but i wish it could be in the form of ics....
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Miui has ics themes that make the phone actually look like it runs ics. N you can download ics launcher on market to get that experience. Only thing missing is the face detection thing
Most stable
Fully customizable
Galnet MIUI

Auto-Android said:
Miui has ics themes that make the phone actually look like it runs ics. N you can download ics launcher on market to get that experience. Only thing missing is the face detection thing
Most stable
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Galnet MIUI
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yeah and the new implimentation of hardware acceleration that improves performance.
im not about the look of aosp even ics, miui and dare i say it touchwiz are much better in their own ways as far as interfaces go. it's the implimentation of bluetooth and other communication and tethering and contacts sync and other things that work with less problems on aosp that i like. but i love the samsung sliders in contacts to call or message and the smart dialer search in touchwiz that are hard to give up. i know the universal search works good for that too and go contact has the smart dialer feature as well but the sliders are the big atraction of touch wiz for me. if someone had a cm7 or miui contacts app that had that id be in love.

im pretty sure MIUI dialer and contacts have slide to call/sms.

threi_ said:
im pretty sure MIUI dialer and contacts have slide to call/sms.
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It doesn't
Most stable
Fully customizable
Galnet MIUI

[Q] rom with modded messages

Hey everyone ive tried tons of different roms, and then I hit miui, this was a brilliant mod for me and i loved the ability to theme my messages app, but the rest of miui i just dont like. So now im looking for roms that have a modified messages.apk of some sort, preferably ics. Also if anyone knows any touchwiz style roms i would love it because i previously had a galaxy and im quite used to it.

U can use any rom and just try oyt the GO Sms + swiftkey and you'll get a really nice combo for sms. (u can tweak whatever u want and how u want - if u get the pro version, get's even beter)
if i helped you somehow hit thanks button pls.
Sended using my nexus s on apex+matr1x

i hate go sms with a passion, i dislike any messages app, and grudgingly im currently using chomp sms.. not enjoying it i must say. I just need a rom that has custom chat bubbles in the messages, doesnt seem like much to ask for. My Galaxy Ace had chat bubbles and it was only $150! seems like the higher end nexus s should have at least that feature.

nashy10 said:
i hate go sms with a passion, i dislike any messages app, and grudgingly im currently using chomp sms.. not enjoying it i must say. I just need a rom that has custom chat bubbles in the messages, doesnt seem like much to ask for. My Galaxy Ace had chat bubbles and it was only $150! seems like the higher end nexus s should have at least that feature.
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But the galaxy ace is newer and has touchwiz >…>
Sent from my ice cream powered Nexus S

are you telling me i shouldnt have traded my galaxy ace for the nexus..... *facepalm*
look. all i need is a rom with a custom messages app.

nashy10 said:
are you telling me i shouldnt have traded my galaxy ace for the nexus..... *facepalm*
look. all i need is a rom with a custom messages app.
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In that case, my rom for example has that bublles style, u can check it out on the nexusshacks website, is the Apex (bixie) v.1.0.0 (combine that with matr1x kernel v.16.5)
Cheers
If i helped u somehow hit thanks

Thanks, I can't check it out at the moment I'm on my phone, is it an ics based rom?
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tried it, has no bubble chat.. ?
looking for a touchwiz rom or one with chat bubbles, i dont want to use a third party messaging app so dont waste you time

There's no touchwiz rom for nexus s I believe, would take a lot to port it
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tried an htc sense rom loved it but it was laggy as crap, any ideas when itl be updated or more supported...
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sorry last random question then mods can close this thread.

nashy10 said:
tried an htc sense rom loved it but it was laggy as crap, any ideas when itl be updated or more supported...
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sorry last random question then mods can close this thread.
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It might never be fully supported, and btw don't ask for ETAs
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