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[THEMES][CM7-RC3] Metallic Glass :: Project Bliss HD --- 03/29/11

It took a a few extra days to update this for CM 7 because I am not using a regular black notification bar like the other themes. There were a few changes to the themes for CM 7. Please remember that Project Bliss HD was based of sonnsekohn's original theme and a majority of the credit goes to him. I kind of went back to some old updates for it as well but it still looks great. I'll be making a few more changes to Metallic Glass over the next few days as well. After that, I'm out for a bit. Also, everything should be working for both Amon_RA and the newest ClockworkMOD recoveries as well
UPDATE: For anyone who flashes these themes and nothing changes follow the steps below. This is another minor problem found with the Edify scripting and recoveries.
1. reboot into recovery
2. manually mount /system and /data from recovery menu
3. flash THEME file
ChangeLog
03-29-11 --- updated Project Bliss to v2.7 for CM7 RC3 - Metallic Glass is is updated to v2.3, notification tray is now white text not black. added a few apps as well.
03-11-11 --- updated both themes for CM7 RC 2
02-26-11 --- updated Project Bliss HD to v2.5 for CM7 RC1 w/ CWMR support
02-24-11 --- updated Metallic Glass to v2.0 for CM7 RC1 w/ CWMR support
METALLIC GLASS
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Download Metallic Glass 2.3 for CM7 RC3 HERE
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Project Bliss HD
Download Project Bliss HD v2.7 for CM 7 RC3 HEREhttp://www.mediafire.com/?4c5ppwos819sycx​
Thanks and Have a Nice Day ;-)

Is that clock/date widget where its written out part of the theme?

schwincat05 said:
Is that clock/date widget where its written out part of the theme?
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yes it is included. it must be setup like any normal widget though. its called typOClock

schwincat05 said:
Is that clock/date widget where its written out part of the theme?
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Its typoclock. Downloading now. This looks good.
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Just installed it, its really slick looking I am loving the animations! Overall awesome. Thanks

Wow dude! This looks great and I love the liquid battery look!

I dig this theme a lot. I was actually perusing themes to get some ideas for a theme I'm working on and stumbled on this. I'm betting I'll be running this for a bit. We seem to have similar taste in UI look/feel.
I know it says "for CM 6.1.1" specifically in the title of the thread, but it might be good to mention this won't work for 6.1. I got boot loops when I flashed this on top of 6.1. Flashing 6.1.1 fixed it.
I really like the animation when you unlock the screen. Very cool! I really appreciate your work on this theme, mad props brutha!

miphonematt said:
I dig this theme a lot. I was actually perusing themes to get some ideas for a theme I'm working on and stumbled on this. I'm betting I'll be running this for a bit. We seem to have similar taste in UI look/feel.
I know it says "for CM 6.1.1" specifically in the title of the thread, but it might be good to mention this won't work for 6.1. I got boot loops when I flashed this on top of 6.1. Flashing 6.1.1 fixed it.
I really like the animation when you unlock the screen. Very cool! I really appreciate your work on this theme, mad props brutha!
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i much prefer they way i have this theme customized on my phone because im a minimalist. its quite nice. ohh, and i'll be adding the frameworks with the other animations as well a little later today in case anyone wants them.

Love the animations. Great work!!!

Wow, i don't know what happened but after flashing, my phone went crazy. When it booted up my apps started fc. I had even flashed a fresh 6.1.1 right before flashing this. Then I tried to restore my nand backup and same thing. WTF is that about. Really weird. In the process of going all the way to my 1st nand backup when I 1st rooted and then I will flash 6.1.1, gapps, and then this. Hopefully that will get it.

lopezpm said:
Wow, i don't know what happened but after flashing, my phone went crazy. When it booted up my apps started fc. I had even flashed a fresh 6.1.1 right before flashing this. Then I tried to restore my nand backup and same thing. WTF is that about. Really weird. In the process of going all the way to my 1st nand backup when I 1st rooted and then I will flash 6.1.1, gapps, and then this. Hopefully that will get it.
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The best way to install this if you are gonna upgrade to cm6.1.1 is to do a full wipe. Flash cm6.1.1 then flash gapps. Boot the rom. Reboot into recovery, wipe cache/dalvik and then flash the theme.
Sometimes if you don't wipe cache/dalvik it will not work properly.

I like the theme very much but is there a way to get the circle back for the battery because the liquid one is hard to read. Thanks

t3project said:
The best way to install this if you are gonna upgrade to cm6.1.1 is to do a full wipe. Flash cm6.1.1 then flash gapps. Boot the rom. Reboot into recovery, wipe cache/dalvik and then flash the theme.
Sometimes if you don't wipe cache/dalvik it will not work properly.
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That's exactly what I did. I already had 6.1.1 but I run it with another theme so I got rid of it by wiping cache and dalvik then flashing 6.1.1 over. I then booted into recovery wiped cache and dalvik again, flashed the theme and ran into problems. I just now restored a nandroid from when I first rooted the phone. Then wiped everything, data, cache, dalvik flashed 6.1.1, booted up, recovery, flashed gapps, booted, recovery, wiped cache and dalvik, booted and got bootloops. I then tried with wiping data, cache, and dalvik and still bootloops. Oh well it looks nice but I just can't use it.

Hmm, that's strange. I'm running it now as well as a few other people and haven't heard of any major problems like this. Of course thats why I left it in beta. I will look into it for ya though.
I did have a similar problem with another modified framework I was working on. Are you positive you are flashing 6.1.1 instead of 6.1?

I'll stick it back in there when I get a chance.

t3project said:
Hmm, that's strange. I'm running it now as well as a few other people and haven't heard of any major problems like this. Of course thats why I left it in beta. I will look into it for ya though.
I did have a similar problem with another modified framework I was working on. Are you positive you are flashing 6.1.1 instead of 6.1?
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Yeah, I'm sure. Its strange cause I've never had this issue. I am using the iNexus one right now.
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Best transitions I've ever seen. And I've seen a lot of them, but not these cool ones.

lopezpm said:
That's exactly what I did. I already had 6.1.1 but I run it with another theme so I got rid of it by wiping cache and dalvik then flashing 6.1.1 over. I then booted into recovery wiped cache and dalvik again, flashed the theme and ran into problems. I just now restored a nandroid from when I first rooted the phone. Then wiped everything, data, cache, dalvik flashed 6.1.1, booted up, recovery, flashed gapps, booted, recovery, wiped cache and dalvik, booted and got bootloops. I then tried with wiping data, cache, and dalvik and still bootloops. Oh well it looks nice but I just can't use it.
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When you say wiping data, cache, and dalvik, do you mean Factory Reset, cache, and dalvik cache? Are you using AmonRA recovery or Clockwork? I've read many times that Clockwork doesn't wipe quite properly.

t3project said:
i much prefer they way i have this theme customized on my phone because im a minimalist. its quite nice. ohh, and i'll be adding the frameworks with the other animations as well a little later today in case anyone wants them.
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I'm assuming you didn't get around to posting the framework anims yet. I'm looking forward to seeing what else you have come up with or collected. Have you found the Gingerbread Screen off animation? It looks like an old school tube TV shutting off. It's pretty awesome looking. I'd read somewhere that it has in fact been ported/implemented on the EVO but I've yet to find it.
Anyhow, I'm definitely going to be checking back often to see if you've posted any updates. I really enjoy your work brotha.

wrceuro said:
I like the theme very much but is there a way to get the circle back for the battery because the liquid one is hard to read. Thanks
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wipe cache and dalvik and then flash the file attached. also, do you want the SSB or just just cant read the other. i have many more options, such as a vertical battery, batter gauge and all kids of stuff like that.

[REQUEST] Custom Dialer & Battery %

I did S-OFF/Root earlier today, but haven't really flashed any new ROM. Stock ROM works good for me now.
Well, the only things I ( and maybe some of you) would like to add to this ROM are the following:
Battery %
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and that dialer...
This is pulled from:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=915159
Hopefully this can be done by someone.
Thanks!

All of the ROMs out now ARE just the stock ROM with the enhancements you want. I don't understand all of this "oh, I rooted, but I want to keep my ****ty stock ROM."
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wow this theme looks great!
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To make more room, I've moved the files that were here to its own post.
Please go HERE to get the mods that were listed here, and some new ones.

gilbar said:
Hey... I didn't really want to get into moding the phone.apk app (maybe I'll look into it this weekend), but i did the battery percentage one for my own use. Attached are two versions, the Sense battery with Percentages that you requested, and the Circular Battery with percentages (See attached images).
Copy to your SD card and flash in clockwork recovery.
I tried them both on my phone, and they worked fine, but I'm not responsible if they cause problems on your phone. Make sure you nandroid before trying these, just in case.
Enjoy!
Edit: If anyone has any particular requests and you can let me know where to get the necessary image files, I can compile different versions for you. I just hate doing the image work on these mods, that's what takes longer than anything else.
Thanks to Fightspit for the circular icons and xml mods, and CM for ideas on the update script.
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I applied it, and upon reboot it works, but a wifi error pops up and the whole phone locks up. I had to use recovery to restore my phone.

Shagman68 said:
I applied it, and upon reboot it works, but a wifi error pops up and the whole phone locks up. I had to use recovery to restore my phone.
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Usually, if it's going to lock up your phone, you'll just see a completely black screen. What do you see when "the whole phone locks up"?
Are you on the stock rom or did you install any other rom or mod prior to this?

gilbar said:
Usually, if it's going to lock up your phone, you'll just see a completely black screen. What do you see when "the whole phone locks up"?
Are you on the stock rom or did you install any other rom or mod prior to this?
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Yeah...I had installed the Sense version (which you now removed), and the screen just turned black right before getting into the home screen. I'll try the other version now. Stock ROM

secano said:
Yeah...I had installed the Sense version (which you now removed), and the screen just turned black right before getting into the home screen. I'll try the other version now. Stock ROM
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Hmmm... Can you try something for me? Install the Stock Version to revert, but clear Cache and Dalvik Cache after you flash it and before you reboot.
If you can boot up fine after this, then try flashing one of the other mods and clear Cache and Dalvik after flashing again.
Let me know what the results are.
BTW, the Sense Style version wasn't removed, when I uploaded the Stock version, XDA screwed something up and removed the Sense Version from my post, so I just re-uploaded it.
Thanks.
P.S. - I've just tried all three again to test, from a stock installation, and I've not had any issues. Hopefully we can figure out what your issues are.

Works well on mine with no problems. Had Crystal Pyramid ROM flashed on mine.
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Now that we are S-Off
Why wouldnt you just use the UOT kitchen ?

prateekgujral said:
Now that we are S-Off
Why wouldnt you just use the UOT kitchen ?
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You could, but since we've gotten root the kitchen has been down (and still is), so I decided to make my own.

its nice! thx for sharing this!

gilbar said:
You could, but since we've gotten root the kitchen has been down (and still is), so I decided to make my own.
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Agreed...

gilbar said:
Hmmm... Can you try something for me? Install the Stock Version to revert, but clear Cache and Dalvik Cache after you flash it and before you reboot.
If you can boot up fine after this, then try flashing one of the other mods and clear Cache and Dalvik after flashing again.
Let me know what the results are.
BTW, the Sense Style version wasn't removed, when I uploaded the Stock version, XDA screwed something up and removed the Sense Version from my post, so I just re-uploaded it.
Thanks.
P.S. - I've just tried all three again to test, from a stock installation, and I've not had any issues. Hopefully we can figure out what your issues are.
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Circle battery ulitmatly ended up working for me, I flashed it cleared dalvik-cache and booted the first time I booted it got stuck on the HTC screen. Pulled the battery and rebooted phone came on no issues tried wifi all that fun stuff and it works fine so anyone having issues try that out see how it goes. THANKS gilbar ill be sure to click the actual button when I get home and am on Chrome instead of IE6.......

prateekgujral said:
Now that we are S-Off
Why wouldnt you just use the UOT kitchen ?
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Because their website still says kitchen is under maintenance everytime I go to it.

I just flashed your Sense mod to my stock ROM. The 1st time, I got black screened, flashed your stock zip, which worked. Then I followed your advice and wiped cache and dalvik after reflashing your sense battery, and it worked perfectly. Maybe you should edit your post to recommend wiping.

groovechild said:
I just flashed your Sense mod to my stock ROM. The 1st time, I got black screened, flashed your stock zip, which worked. Then I followed your advice and wiped cache and dalvik after reflashing your sense battery, and it worked perfectly. Maybe you should edit your post to recommend wiping.
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Done. Thanks for the advice.
The only reason I didn't add it originally is because it shouldn't be necessary, but I guess it is for some, and is not for others. Oh well.

gilbar said:
Usually, if it's going to lock up your phone, you'll just see a completely black screen. What do you see when "the whole phone locks up"?
Are you on the stock rom or did you install any other rom or mod prior to this?
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It does go black, then no response from it until I pull the battery. I will try the clear cache, and try again.

Shagman68 said:
It does go black, then no response from it until I pull the battery. I will try the clear cache, and try again.
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Right, once you get the black screen, you need a battery pull to restart.
Try clearing cache and try again, but I've found that once you get the black screen, the most reliable way to fix the issue is this:
1. Install the Stock Battery Mod.
2. Clear Cache and Dalvik Cache.
3. Boot up... Should boot fine.
4. Install whatever mod you want.
5. Clear Cache and Dalvik Cache.
6. Boot up... should work now.
If you just try clearing cache after you already get the black screen, then for some reason I've found that it might not fix the issue and the above steps might be necessary.
Good luck, let me know what works.

Can someone create a flashable zip to incorporate these? Animated icons!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1038270

Silver rom ics q and a

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SILVER ROM ICS Q&A THREAD​
Please keep this thread on topic
no trolling
no complaining
no arguments
valid rom related questions and comments are welcome

Is TiBu working yet?

yes i just need to reupload . its not working in the link i have currenty posted i will change the link once i upload

silver03wrx said:
yes i just need to reupload . its not working in the link i have currently posted i will change the link once i upload
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Thank you bro. Can I just reinstall TiBu from GP? And thanks for all your hard work..You rock..

no it wont work. i accidentally put the preload preconfg app back in wasnt paying attention coppying apps. lol it happens
but thats what causes force closes and tibu to not work
its fixed now
new link will be in op in about an hour

how do you take your screen captures? The app i normally use ShootMe takes pictures that appear to be red washed.
Never mind. Figured it out.

Good idea on the Q&A thread! Of course most people will glaze over that and post questions in the other thread, but it's a good idea.
Only problem might be that the post count will go down for the thread in the dev section if people come here instead, and you may get moved down the list onto page two--behind inferior roms...

What does the Silver Rom flashable theme consist of exactly? Is that what is in the preview pictures or does it look different?

Thank you silver
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i flashed ICS3 but i cant seem to download anything no links work anywhere to download. says download starting then when i check on it says it failed. is there anything i can do?

Got collectiveics3 working
I had been having boot loop problems, and when I finally got it running the acore FC was killing me because it ground everything to a halt over and over again.
I flashed Superlite 4.5, which wiped and then ran OK but I got ambitious and flashed the UCALC5 modem and it turned into a nightmare... every touch of the screen would freeze me up for a minute or more.
I reflashed the romracer kernal and the UCALC4 modem, then reflashed collectiveics3 and that gave me a working ics, but the apex crashes were making life difficult (trying to log on to the market took me over an hour because the keyboard kept dissapearing, but I finally got there and updated Apex and TiBu and reinstalled the TiBu key... that let me restore the stuff I lost to the superlite flash... but something didn't play nice with the ROM.
Reflashed superlite, reflashed collectiveics3, re-updated Apex and TiBu, and then rloaded most of my apps from the maeket, restored data ONLY from user apps (and was picky about which ones I chose) and I can hapily say everything seems to be working properly for me...
In the interest complying with the Q&A for this thread... here's a question.
I was in a strong LTE area for a couple hours but couldn't find where to tell the phone to use it... The settings on the Rogers GB ROM are self evident... where do I find them on this one?
I am anxiously awaiting the updated link, but headed to a cottage that's off the grid and nowhere near cellular service in an hour or so, so I guess I'm in no hurry until Monday now... may as well take the pressure off so he can make it absolutely perfect.
Jamie

@Silver
Does this ROM have the option in the settings menu to turn off LTE? I think that option in your GB ROM saved me some battery life, and I would love to see it in this ROM. This ICS kernel or radio seems to really suck battery, I'm glad I have the 15 toggle to turn off data completely when I'm at work.
another Q what's the difference between the theme link on Post #4 of DEV Thread and the ROM that will be posted in OP?

Here http://www.theandroidcollective.org/i727/SilverRom/silverics.zip
Some thing i have have concluded about the ics leak. And my rom instructions
Use cwm 5.0.2.6 and only this version. It is in the dev section in a cwm recovery.tar
Works everytime for me on this cwm version
Do not use rom manager to install it. Our device is very similar to the t989 but there is something different to where the skyrockrt will always have recovery issues. Unless we get our own specific for us.
Do not wipe anything....just flash no wipes.
Wipes cause bootloops in my rom.
If u abide by these directions. You will be all good.
Enjoy
Still not finished the rom but it is a work in progress as this was built from a leak eith many bugs.
Its fast and smooth. New apex version...new live wallpapers.
Included usefull apps.

boot loop help
i installed zip from sd card and now my phone will not boot up. it shows the samsung logo and then powers off or shows logo then restarts. can someone please help me figure this out. thank you

theazad23 said:
i installed zip from sd card and now my phone will not boot up. it shows the samsung logo and then powers off or shows logo then restarts. can someone please help me figure this out. thank you
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Boot back into cwm manualy and reflash the zip again. Did you wipe anything in cwm before you flashed?
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i think it did. honestly this is my first time flashing my phone so im not surprised i screwed it up.
i just tried installing the zip again and it says it will fully wipe. it didnt give me an option to choose to wipe or not. how can i install it without wiping?

theazad23 said:
i think it did. honestly this is my first time flashing my phone so im not surprised i screwed it up.
i just tried installing the zip again and it says it will fully wipe. it didnt give me an option to choose to wipe or not. how can i install it without wiping?
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dont wipe anything manually. Just flash silvers ics rom. It will wipe what it needs to. Do that and if it bootloops again let us know.
Did tou ever get to the bootanimation during the first boot after flash?
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ok then i did it right the first time. i didnt manually wipe anything. i just went to install zip from sd card and installed it. after it was installed it went to the bootanimation and maybe completed half of it. then it restarted and started looping and then the bootanimation would not come back. just the samsung logo looping. i ended up going back to stock so at least i got my phone working again
for this rom to work do i need to be running 4.0.3? when i tried to install it i was running 2.3.5. could that have been the problem?

theazad23 said:
ok then i did it right the first time. i didnt manually wipe anything. i just went to install zip from sd card and installed it. after it was installed it went to the bootanimation and maybe completed half of it. then it restarted and started looping and then the bootanimation would not come back. just the samsung logo looping. i ended up going back to stock so at least i got my phone working again
for this rom to work do i need to be running 4.0.3? when i tried to install it i was running 2.3.5. could that have been the problem?
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You should be able to come from gingerbread no problem. Get a fresh download of the rom and try again.
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Here is the updated version. Fixed titu issue and market issue. All is well
U will get an apex fc on first boot. Just update it on market.
Sorry for the delay i changed the theme 5 times. But here os the rom.
Theme changes will be made via flashable theme from here on
http://www.theandroidcollective.org/i727/SilverRom/03silverics.zip

Rooted, Backed-Up, Flashed to Synergy...First timer...How to load backups now?

So I left Apple, came to Android, rooted my VZW GS3. First time I've ever done anything like this, so I'm new to it. I backed up EVERYTHING using TiBu, did the IMEI backup, Full system/image backup using CWM, unlocked bootloader, etc. Then I flashed to Synergy r46 (august 20th - yesterday's release).
Now I'm at work and my back-up pulled my contacts via Verizon's server, but how do I get back EVERYTHING else? SMS/MMS logs, call logs, apps, app data, etc? Do I need to download TiBu again (fresh from google market) and then load my backups off my Ext-SD card, or what? I guess I'm a bit confused as to where my TiBu items were even stored/saved...I assume it was the ExtSD card, otherwise I would have lost them all upon flashing to Synergy, correct?
Any help to get all my apps and data back on my newly Synergized phone would be awesome!!!! Thanks in advance!!!

Yes download titanium and then point it to the directory you had your back ups saved to (its sd card by default, and which is your phone storage btw) then tab to backup/restore click the check, then once your app data populates, and select run next to restore apps and data.
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And no flashing roms will not wipe all your user data unless you do a complete wipe.
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I used titanuium backup pro to back up all my Apps and system data. And when I flash a new rom I just redownload titanium pro and it automatically restores all my Apps and system data. It is the easiest app I have used. So to answer ur question.....back up ur apps with titanium then after flashing a new rom go and redownload titanium and restore your system data and apps or just apps alone if that's what u prefer? Does that answer ur question or would u like more detailed instructions?
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Welcome to android!
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Another very nice feature of Titanium Backup is its ability to pull data from CWM nandroids. There have been a few times where I was quick to flash a new rom without doing a backup of my apps. This has saved me much time from having to re-flash the nandroid backup, backup via TB, then re-flash to the new rom.

voodoomanx said:
And no flashing roms will not wipe all your user data unless you do a complete wipe.
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This is one thing that scares me...I don't quite understand what's being wiped or how to perform a full wipe. I hope I don't do this on accident on day...When I flashed the ROM, I basically booted into CWM recovery and installed from there....I was unable to install by opening the ROMs ZIP file via ROM Manager. When I tried to install this way, it failed.
Can somebody confirm if I flashed correctly, just to put my worries to rest? Here's how I did it...
I backed everything up, unlocked bootloader, and tried to install Synergy r46 via ROM manager, but I had problem. I had the ZIP for the ROM downloaded to my Ext-SD card, like the installation instructions say. I then opened ROM Manager and went to "install ROM from SD card." The phone rebooted and opened in CWM to install...But kept having problems finding some "path" or something.
So I decide to wing it and rebooted into CWM. I cleared davik cache(sp?), then user data, then navigated to my Ext-SD and selected the ROM ZIP to install. Now, everything seems fine and it says it installed successfully, but I still think I installed in a way that wasn't described.
Is this a legit install and is this how most people flash ROMs, from booting directly into CWM, or should ROM manager have worked for me via "install ROM from SD card???" If so, why didn't ROM Manager work for me?
Rather urgent question: When I restore my items, do I want to click "RESTORE MISSING APPS + ALL SYSTEM DATA?" ill this restore the bloatware that was on my phone prior to flashing????? If so, is there any way around it
Thanks a bunch! Just waiting on an answer to the later questions before I restore.

Weioo said:
This is one thing that scares me...I don't quite understand what's being wiped or how to perform a full wipe. I hope I don't do this on accident on day...When I flashed the ROM, I basically booted into CWM recovery and installed from there....I was unable to install by opening the ROMs ZIP file via ROM Manager. When I tried to install this way, it failed.
Can somebody confirm if I flashed correctly, just to put my worries to rest? Here's how I did it...
I backed everything up, unlocked bootloader, and tried to install Synergy r46 via ROM manager, but I had problem. I had the ZIP for the ROM downloaded to my Ext-SD card, like the installation instructions say. I then opened ROM Manager and went to "install ROM from SD card." The phone rebooted and opened in CWM to install...But kept having problems finding some "path" or something.
So I decide to wing it and rebooted into CWM. I cleared davik cache(sp?), then user data, then navigated to my Ext-SD and selected the ROM ZIP to install. Now, everything seems fine and it says it installed successfully, but I still think I installed in a way that wasn't described.
Is this a legit install and is this how most people flash ROMs, from booting directly into CWM, or should ROM manager have worked for me via "install ROM from SD card???" If so, why didn't ROM Manager work for me?
Rather urgent question: When I restore my items, do I want to click "RESTORE MISSING APPS + ALL SYSTEM DATA?" ill this restore the bloatware that was on my phone prior to flashing????? If so, is there any way around it
Thanks a bunch! Just waiting on an answer to the later questions before I restore.
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I am wondering if you didn't do the full wipe. If you are using CWM v6.0.1.0 then there is no option labeled "user data" it is "wipe data/factory reset" which is the full wipe like I mentioned.
As far as doing it correctly, as you may have already noticed there is more than one way to do about anything. Personally, I still use CWM v6.0.1.0 and flash the zips there.
P.S. I see you are enjoying your freedom of losing your apples!
Also, tell me how your r46 is working ... I have held off at r23 while they are playing around with kernels and ramdisk tweaks for awhile.

Hi, I'm pretty much in the same boat as the OP coming from an iphone and this is my first android phone. My problem is that all of the synergy roms (r39, 46, 50 and 1.7) I tried were unstable and kept rebooting randomly. I unlocked the boot loader and believe I did everything right. Did I miss a step? I restored back my nandroid after several attempts at Synergy. I like the responsiveness and tweaks of Synergy but I couldn't deal with the random reboots. Sometimes it would just continue in a boot loop too.

dan_joegibbsfan said:
I am wondering if you didn't do the full wipe. If you are using CWM v6.0.1.0 then there is no option labeled "user data" it is "wipe data/factory reset" which is the full wipe like I mentioned.
As far as doing it correctly, as you may have already noticed there is more than one way to do about anything. Personally, I still use CWM v6.0.1.0 and flash the zips there.
P.S. I see you are enjoying your freedom of losing your apples!
Also, tell me how your r46 is working ... I have held off at r23 while they are playing around with kernels and ramdisk tweaks for awhile.
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I'm fairly certain I did "wipe data/factory reset," I just wasn't sure how it was labeled when I typed that out, but that's really ringing a bell. I think I may have gotten the errors before (using ROM Manager) because I hadn't factory reset? Seems to me I'm good to go! However, my question regarding TiBu still remains.
Edit: In regards to informing you about r46, I'm not sure what to report as I've never used a previous Synergy and have no idea how to compare, other than to the rooted stock ROM. I have heard reports of battery life being worse than the stock ROM, and I can confirm this. I've barely used the phone since I flashed to Synergy and it's dropped 15% battery life in ~3 hours. Seems faster than before but I'm unsure.

nguyenvn said:
Hi, I'm pretty much in the same boat as the OP coming from an iphone and this is my first android phone. My problem is that all of the synergy roms (r39, 46, 50 and 1.7) I tried were unstable and kept rebooting randomly. I unlocked the boot loader and believe I did everything right. Did I miss a step? I restored back my nandroid after several attempts at Synergy. I like the responsiveness and tweaks of Synergy but I couldn't deal with the random reboots. Sometimes it would just continue in a boot loop too.
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I started getting that sort of behavior so I just restored back to my stock rooted backup and reflashed Synergy 1.7 r23 and then reflashed the theme I'm using. I thought my issues came from other modifications I had tried so I will try to remember to report back to this post tomorrow and tell you if I'm still having those similar issues or if I'm stable again.

dan_joegibbsfan said:
I started getting that sort of behavior so I just restored back to my stock rooted backup and reflashed Synergy 1.7 r23 and then reflashed the theme I'm using. I thought my issues came from other modifications I had tried so I will try to remember to report back to this post tomorrow and tell you if I'm still having those similar issues or if I'm stable again.
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Was 1.7 r23 supposed to be a really stable release? I read through some of the Synergy thread and didn't see anyone having the issues I had. I felt like I was doing something wrong.

nguyenvn said:
Hi, I'm pretty much in the same boat as the OP coming from an iphone and this is my first android phone. My problem is that all of the synergy roms (r39, 46, 50 and 1.7) I tried were unstable and kept rebooting randomly. I unlocked the boot loader and believe I did everything right. Did I miss a step? I restored back my nandroid after several attempts at Synergy. I like the responsiveness and tweaks of Synergy but I couldn't deal with the random reboots. Sometimes it would just continue in a boot loop too.
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I have never had a hot boot or boot loop using any version of synergy. I've been running it since 1.3 and flashed last night's rom as well. What method of unlock did you use for the bootloader unlock? Did you see the custom kernel loaded into phone settings?
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I have never had a hot boot or boot loop using any version of synergy. I've been running it since 1.3 and flashed last night's rom as well. What method of unlock did you use for the bootloader unlock? Did you see the custom kernel loaded into phone settings?
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I used the EZ-unlock app in the play store. I did see that a custom kernel was loaded however when i flashed back to my nandroid (stock rooted) I am back on the orignal kernel. Would the way I rooted have an effect on the reboots? I used the non flash method by Noxious Ninja.

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I have never had a hot boot or boot loop using any version of synergy. I've been running it since 1.3 and flashed last night's rom as well. What method of unlock did you use for the bootloader unlock? Did you see the custom kernel loaded into phone settings?
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I agree I have yet to have Synergy boot loop although I'm still on 1.7. I would try to wipe cache and dalvik cache and see if that helps or you could be over clocking to high.
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nguyenvn said:
Was 1.7 r23 supposed to be a really stable release? I read through some of the Synergy thread and didn't see anyone having the issues I had. I felt like I was doing something wrong.
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I don't know the answer to that specifically. All I know was that I was stable before another modification I made (that said it wouldn't work but I tried it anyway). Since restoring from backup and reloading Synergy and theme I have not seen any weird rebooting anymore.
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Would the way I rooted have an effect on the reboots? I used the non flash method by Noxious Ninja.
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I'm not familiar with that method. I've only used Odin, even when I did have to redo everything I used Odin to stock de-bloated rooted .md5 then CWM'd from there.

So I'm giving it another shot on r50. I made sure to clear dalvik, cache and data. After flashing It gave me the reboot problems again. I installed system tuner to change the cpu back to 1.5. Maybe it's from the overclock but we'll see how it goes. Is everyone leaving it overclocked on 1.9 not having issues?

nguyenvn said:
So I'm giving it another shot on r50. I made sure to clear dalvik, cache and data. After flashing It gave me the reboot problems again. I installed system tuner to change the cpu back to 1.5. Maybe it's from the overclock but we'll see how it goes. Is everyone leaving it overclocked on 1.9 not having issues?
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That may very well be the issue. 1.9ghz is a very aggressive overclock, and i wouldn't be surprised if was unstable on a good number of phones. Synergy's supposed to boot at 1.5ghz max by default - I don't know whether that was successfully implemented. I personally think it's silly to OC such a capable phone, anyway. Back in the days of the Droid 1, an overclock from the stock 550mhz to 800mhz-900mhz was an enormous improvement. Today, the only thing OCing the S3 gets you is a <10% improvement in Quadrant, more heat, possible instability, and no perceptible difference outside of those silly synthetic benchmarks.
Anyway, in this thread, there seems to be a fair bit of confusion as far as what's what in the android partitions. I'll give you a short rundown.
"aboot" is what's referred to here as the bootloader. It checks to see whether the next partition in the boot sequence, "boot", is authorized. When you unlocked your bootloader, you overwrote aboot with a version that does not perform that check.
"boot" contains your kernel. If your ROM has a custom kernel, it contains a boot.img to overwrite boot.
"system" is the meat of the OS. This is primarily what ROMs flash.
"data" contains all of your apps and settings. When you perform a factory reset, you're reformatting data. If you're flashing a ROM that is significantly different from what you're on now, some of those old settings and data can cause errors, force closes, random reboots, and boot loops. When in doubt, wipe data before flashing a new ROM. When going from one version of a ROM to a newer, very similar version of the same ROM (nightly to nightly), you probably don't need to wipe data, but make a backup just in case. dalvik-cache is also in data; if you wipe data, you've automatically wiped the dalvik cache. It's redundant to wipe data and then wipe dalvik cache.
"cache" is just that, the cache partition. Clearing it won't make you loose anything, at least not anything Android won't silently replace.

So far it seems to be pretty stable on r50. I installed system tuner and brought it down to 1.5 Ghz. I'm not sure why 1.9 is set to default. Doesn't seem like a good idea to me. Thanks all for the help/advice.

[Q] Newbe question regarding Vzw touchwiz roms...

Newbe to vzw Samsung Galaxy s3.... I kind of enjoyed the TouchWiz features in the vzw store. Can someone point me in the right direction for a touchwiz rom with root where I can use the hand swipe to do a screen snapshot, etc, etc?
Currently I have a aopk rom on my phone that someone else loaded on it. Unless I am missing something, it doesn't seem to have touchwiz.
Can someone help a fellow out?
Thanks in advance.

I like this one. It has everything you asked for and it's cleaned of the bloat.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1832070

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=30640131
Link above will list pretty much all ROMs and kernel available.
You can test and see what you prefer.
Stable rms I have tested: cleanrom as stated above ans synergy.
....but just flash different ones and see what you like. That's part of the fun!
Sent from a SYNERGIZED GalaxySIII

Thanks for the replies... I see Clean and Synergy. I currently have Synergy on my TB. Right now on my s3, it came to me preloaded with AOPK. But that doesn't have TouchWiz. Which version of Synergy would be considered the most stable? It's hard for me to tell which versions are which. I did see someone post something about a version 1.7, but for the life of me I don't see that.

R73 is the most current 4.0 build. It's fan-friggen-tastic! 4.1 jb build us just beginning, so wouldn't recommend that one for you. Click the current build link and it will list all recent versions.
Throw on a Trinity kernel and a little dark horse rises theme, and love life for the great moment in time your in...
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Thanks, I found Synergy R73. Now I am waiting on it to finish booting up. I am sitting on the 'Synergy ROM' boot animation, and it has been on that for at least 5 minutes. I think something went afoul here. Hmmmm.

Nope, takes a bit first time
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Ok, I will let it go for a while longer. I hope this takes *wow*.... heh... I can't help but be a little nervous because it seems like it is taking forever. Wish there was a percentage bar or something... lol...

It's still going.... so all in all so far it has been 25 minutes.... I think this is taking too long- don't you think?

That's long, your bootloader is unlocked correct?
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Describe in as much detail as possible all actions taken after you got your device and decided to change the rom..
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Yes unlocked. Tried a few battery pulls but no go. Then tried to go into recovery. Now it is telling me "Downloading... Do not turn off target!"

Your in download not recovery mode. Hold power button down, it should shut off after 20 seconds give or take. Then power, home, up (not down) for recovery
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Device came preloaded with AOPK. I have not activated it yet. It's to replace my HTC Thunderbolt. I was wanting to put on a TouchWiz rom and load that first before trying to activate. Then once activated, I was going to get all my apps back from the market, etc.
I downloaded Synergy 1.7 from the download area. I copied it to a UTILITIES folder on the internal card. I did a MD5 checksum prior to installing Synergy and the checksum was perfect.
I then went to install zip from internal sd. I navigated to the UTILITIES folder, and selected the Synergy zip file. It then did some processing for a few minutes and told me it was done.
It was at that time I rebooted the device, and from there it sat on that Synergy boot animation.
I then tried several battery pulls after it was at the boot animation for 30 minutes or so. But they all just sat at the boot animation. Finally I attempted to get into recovery mode. I am not sure if I selected the proper keys, but used Power button, Home button, and Volume down button.
That's how I ended up where I am now.

Sorry I didn't see your message until just now. I will try again and report back in just a sec.

Did you make a backup before the flash? Did you wipe data before the flash? Have you been able to get into recovery as I mentioned above?

Ok, it took a few times, but I am now in Recovery. Should I do a "wipe data/factory reset"?

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Did you make a backup before the flash? Did you wipe data before the flash? Have you been able to get into recovery as I mentioned above?
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Yes I made a backup of aopk before the flash.
No I did not wipe data before the flash.
Yes, I am now in recovery mode using the steps you outlined

Ok good, you were just on sh*t street, but not on F'd lane! Yes wipe data, wipe cache, go to advanced wipe dalvik. Then reflash the synergy rom. This should work fine. bootup will be anywhere from 5 to 10 min
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wipe data twice to be sure

annoyingduck said:
Ok good, you were just on sh*t street, but not on F'd lane! Yes wipe data, wipe cache, go to advanced wipe dalvik. Then reflash the synergy rom. This should work fine. bootup will be anywhere from 5 to 10 min
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wipe data twice to be sure
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*Whew*
I wiped data, cache, and dalvik. I did that 3 times on each one to be sure...
Now I am attempting to install Synergy again.
Will post back in a few mins.
Also, annoyingduck, thanks for all of your assistance and getting me out of that bad situation. Hopefully this time things will go smoothly.
- Update - it just finished installing. Now it is starting to boot up. I now have the boot animation screen and it is 29mins after the hour. I am watching the clock.... *keeping fingers crossed*

Ok, that's done. I don't currently have a sim card inserted into the device. I wonder if I can use the one from my TB? Or should I use the one that came with the phone?