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Guys just posted a real breif review of gummycharged V1.5 on you tube check it out its not the best review but still does it justice dobo12284 on you tube
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Guys just posted a real breif review of gummycharged V1.5 on you tube check it out its not the best review but still does it justice dobo12284 on you tube
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Awesome. I'm going to give it a shot once the exchange email is fixed.
Btw, can you post what you did to fix the bootanimation? You mentioned something about trying to install a different boot animation but it fixing the stock one? That would be awesome.
Basically I found it by accident .. most samsungs can't change the boot animation but when you try to install one it repairs the stock one so try bootanimationchangerlite out
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Thanks for posting the video up. It was a bit tough to see a lot of the screen from the angle but I got the overall feel. Great looking ROM, I hadn't installed it yet, donated to kejar31 already to help keep the work moving ahead. I will be installing this tomorrow sometime.
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Awesome. I'm going to give it a shot once the exchange email is fixed.
Btw, can you post what you did to fix the bootanimation? You mentioned something about trying to install a different boot animation but it fixing the stock one? That would be awesome.
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the exchange email issue is resolved you will find the fix in the updates section of the OP in the GummCharged thread
Hey awesome!
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In Love with this phone now.
I have been sooooo satisfied with my Charge after this rom + the peanutbutter kernal. Quick, clean, responsive, and AMAZING battery life.
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I have been sooooo satisfied with my Charge after this rom + the peanutbutter kernal. Quick, clean, responsive, and AMAZING battery life.
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Were you getting crappy battery life before flashing these? I'm still on vanilla and battery life is pretty poor.
What case are you using in the video?
I tried this Rom but unfortunately the supposedly video fix never worked. That's too bad cuz i really liked this Rom.
is the SD write issue fixed too?
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Were you getting crappy battery life before flashing these? I'm still on vanilla and battery life is pretty poor.
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What do you mean by poor battery. Are you calling 1 1/2 day of battery poor?
Sweet ROM! Even faster than EE4 debloated. Love the stock gb look I've been missing.
oh, and quadrant is in the 1700's instead of 1600's if you are into that sport of thing. Smoother than EE4 debloated for sure.
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gummy charged 1.5
I absolutely love the way this rom feels, but I did uninstall it to stock ee4 only because i was having trouble syncing my gmail. there is a simple fix, but you have to do it manually and i haven't fully tried it yet.
adb pull /data/system/sync/android.xml ./android.xml
open the file and mess with where it says "com.android.calendar" and switch it to say just "calendar"
then push the file back when you're done. you should make a backup of this file before you do it.
OR, you could trying pulling this file BEFORE you root and switch to gummycharge. and then push it back in once you see the error with the sync.
i would suggest the latter, but again, i haven't tried either method yet.
let me know what it goes for some of you.
meanwhile, greatjob kejar, looking forward to soft-bricking my phone with many of your new versions of gummy in the future. i am willing to test any beta's you're willing to put out
I have been planning on installing this ROM for about a week now - this is the 1st I have read of the issue syncing GMAIL. This is a deal killer for me as I rely very heavily upon Google Apps sync in my business. Is the fix well documented somewhere?
Thx
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I absolutely love the way this rom feels, but I did uninstall it to stock ee4 only because i was having trouble syncing my gmail. there is a simple fix, but you have to do it manually and i haven't fully tried it yet.
adb pull /data/system/sync/android.xml ./android.xml
open the file and mess with where it says "com.android.calendar" and switch it to say just "calendar"
then push the file back when you're done. you should make a backup of this file before you do it.
OR, you could trying pulling this file BEFORE you root and switch to gummycharge. and then push it back in once you see the error with the sync.
i would suggest the latter, but again, i haven't tried either method yet.
let me know what it goes for some of you.
meanwhile, greatjob kejar, looking forward to soft-bricking my phone with many of your new versions of gummy in the future. i am willing to test any beta's you're willing to put out
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Ok as far as the battery life Im a heavy user so I get about 5 hrs heavy use if its just normal casual use I can go all day...the video fix is in 1.5 and I have had no sd probelms. You have to keep in mind this is only version 1.5 so as kejar31 go's it will only get better.
If you don't try this rom you will never know if you truly like it!!!
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Oh and the case Is a incipio you can get them from verizon
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What do you mean by poor battery. Are you calling 1 1/2 day of battery poor?
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With moderate use I've only been getting about 8-10 hours battery life. If I try not to use it hardly, I've gotten it up to 21 hours(like leaving it on while I sleep and then not much while I'm up). I'm on 3G, automatic screen, 15 sec screen hibernate. I had apps updating more frequently and 1 minute/30 sec screen hibernate the first couple days I had the phone, and was only getting about 6-7 hours.
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is the SD write issue fixed too?
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Yes, yes it is
sarends said:
I have been planning on installing this ROM for about a week now - this is the 1st I have read of the issue syncing GMAIL. This is a deal killer for me as I rely very heavily upon Google Apps sync in my business. Is the fix well documented somewhere?
Thx
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I haven't heard anything about it either! I am also very dependent on Google apps. If you decide to give Gummy a try and have this issue sarends, let me know and I will help but I doubt you will.
Like many new charge users im coming from the fascinate. I ran the commrom and loved it. very clean, stable and had lots of goodies. So i was wondering if there was a rom or even better and all in one root/rom/kernal package that was a lot like commrom with most if not all the same goodies like acc battery, 5-6 lock screens just to name a few. also, does everybody elses screen take like 4 secs to turn back on. like after you move your headset away from your head? or is it a possible sensor issue or something? Thanks
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Like many new charge users im coming from the fascinate. I ran the commrom and loved it. very clean, stable and had lots of goodies. So i was wondering if there was a rom or even better and all in one root/rom/kernal package that was a lot like commrom with most if not all the same goodies like acc battery, 5-6 lock screens just to name a few. also, does everybody elses screen take like 4 secs to turn back on. like after you move your headset away from your head? or is it a possible sensor issue or something? Thanks
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There isn't really anything like that yet with all the extra goodies and all that. Kejar (team gummy) are working on getting something like that (multiple lock screens, kernal, rom, root included) in their next release. No, I don't have a problem with the headset sensor.
The closest thing to what you are looking for would be Kejars Odin package. You can find that here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1116086
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There isn't really anything like that yet with all the extra goodies and all that. Kejar (team gummy) are working on getting something like that (multiple lock screens, kernal, rom, root included) in their next release. No, I don't have a problem with the headset sensor.
The closest thing to what you are looking for would be Kejars Odin package. You can find that here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1116086
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thank you. Im still reading a lot of the threats and trying to get up to date on whats going on inthe charge forums. Time has just been very limited lately. I def looki forward to future updates then. Commrom was an excellent rom.
Actually, particularly if you use the Odin file, Gummy already has most of what the Fascinate's UKB has -- accurate battery, a toolbox, starts with the Gingerbread theme and has multiple other theme choices, kernel and recovery (and it's obviously rooted; every custom ROM is).
All it doesn't have yet are multiple lockscreens, but that's coming out in the next version (they've already released screenshots and they're even using some of the TSM lockscreens).
Someone, whose name is slipping my mind right now, is in the process of porting tsm parts to the charge. I think it will be included in gummycharged fe 2.0 but I cannot say for sure.
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awesome, i cant wait. the tsm 4 mode programable lock screen and the half circle mute unmute and anwser lock screen were my fav so far.
Yeah it looks like tsm parts will definitely be onboard gc2.0 along with a new toolbox gui. Its shaping up to be a good rom gone great to tide us over until we have aosp.
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Yeah mark me down as another waiting gummy 2.0. I am running humble right now but that is onlybeen because I got too lazy to change it. Well that and I keep thinking gb is around the corner... Yeah yeah wishful thinking
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if yall are talking on the phone for a min then go to hang up does it take 3-4 sec for your screen to turn back on? im just wondering if thats normal or if i need to swap ine out for another cltr?
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if yall are talking on the phone for a min then go to hang up does it take 3-4 sec for your screen to turn back on? im just wondering if thats normal or if i need to swap ine out for another cltr?
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My screen comes back on instantly.
Hey all,
I have tested every single third-party camera app out there and I personally found Camera 360 to be the best. Vignette runs perfectly on this phone but I honestly hate it. I don't see why people like this replacement so much.
Anyways,
I have used Camera360 a few days now and have tried really hard to get it stable. It simply isn't. It crashes constantly at any point during every single launch and use. And forget it if you happen to get a notification of any type! It will instantly crash and freeze the screen with error. Doesn't matter what type of app is sending the notification. It happens every single time.
I really love this Camera app as a replacement to the default app. Has many cool features. However, wondering if anyone with this phone has gotten it to work 100% stable?
I've tried everything and applied a number of changes and/or tweaks I found online but none help. After it crashes, if I go in and delete the cache from the application and launch it again, it work a bit better and much longer before it eventually locks up my phone again.
Any tips to get this working would be great!
Thanks!
--mike
camera360 works perfectly on mine......ive always loved the app
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kr3g3r,
Thanks for the comments. Anything special you had to do? Has it EVER crashed on you?
I just don't understand. Why? Well I tested it out when I got the phone, tested it after rooting and tested it again today after so many changes and heavy modification. Still highly unstable. The instant freeze and reboot when a notification comes in is super annoying.
Anyone else have an issue or some suggestions to get this working properly?
Thanks,
--mike
I also have no problems with Camera360, I just installed it and used it, didn't have any special config. Using TPC v3 on Rogers S2 LTE.
Total noob question, Camera 360 Ultimate?
For some reason I thought it was a paid app, if it's free I am in.
djtyres,
It is actually completely free!
The reason I posted this is because I did try all other options, including all the paid apps. I found this one to be the best.
Man, I wish it wasn't so damn unstable.
I am hoping that someone here can provide some sort of solution.
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Did you try deleting and reinstalling the app? Camera360 runs perfectly on my Skyrocket (stock). Also, are you running if from the internal memory or have you moved it to the microSD card? And where is your default picture folder?
Hi Budge,
Yep...trust me...I have done everything. I uninstalled the app and went into all directories (I'm rooted) and found every single trace of it, including cache, and deleted everything. I then rebooted and re-installed. It was working fine for about 5 minutes and then it crashed again.
After some research, I found some who stated to go into app management and clear the cache. I did that and it still crashed.
As far as your other questions...
I install all my apps on internal memory only. I tried it with the default directory and with a custom path to the external SD card...still no luck man. It really is upsetting, considering just how many hours I have spent trying to fix this. That should tell you how much I really was impressed with it.
--mike
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djtyres,
It is actually completely free!
The reason I posted this is because I did try all other options, including all the paid apps. I found this one to be the best.
Man, I wish it wasn't so damn unstable.
I am hoping that someone here can provide some sort of solution.
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Thanks, already playing with it, had 2 crashes but only when I was messing with settings.
Crash...
LOL! See, I told ya so. I just can't figure it out.
Keep me posted...I'm curious as to how well it works for you.
If possible and you have some free time, test it the following way...
Load the app and start fiddling with all menus and all available features. In the process of doing this, take a few pictures with the new settings you chose and preview it and then go back quickly to main app and keep messing with it. Wondering if that will make it crash with you? As I stated, a very quick and simple test is to send yourself a notification of some sort (SMS, Email, App sync, etc.). Let me know if it survives! Notifications I have have both a ringtone and set to always vibrate.
--mike
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Thanks, already playing with it, had 2 crashes but only when I was messing with settings.
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I really like this app, been using it over a year now. Still running it on my SR with no issues. I'm rooted and running Sky ICS right now with Faux's kernel.
I see you have done a lot of clearing caches and this and that.... but have you tried fixing permissions thru Rom Manager? Every rom I flash, I make sure the first thing I do when the phone settles in, is fix permissions. Fixing permissions almost always solves any force close or crashing issues I may have. Even if I download a new app, I fix permissions to be safe. If you haven't tried this yet, hope it helps. Good luck....
yeah fixing permissions and clearing caches properly makes a huge difference when you flash anything.........but not just clearing caches in the app.....in CWM
also.......are you running any camera mods? and which rom?......or are ya stock?
Mine works as long as I do not change brightness.
The camera mods is a good thing to look into. I may be running ics camera apk
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Hi,
Thanks for the info...
Yes, I've tried that on occasion. Do you do it from CWM? Or do you fix permissions on the individual app itself? I've done this through ROM Toolbox.
The think is I do not run custom ROMs. I have stock ROM modified and rooted to my liking. No custom Kernel either.
Camera360 is excellent on this phone....I use it as default...unless I want a specific metering....camera360 crashes on me when trying to choose metering...otherwise it works perfect...and the results are better than stock....one big bonus with camera360 is being able to choose ISO50 where stock app only lets you choose ISO100 as the lowest. And the ISO50 setting clearly works.
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Damn, that comment didn't help much! LOL. I really want to get it working man. I think I have installed it over 10 times now. Still not stable. Also, any notification will freeze and crash the app. Does it run for you even after some kind of notification in background??
Also, curious why you would use ISO 50 with this camera though?
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pookieguy said:
Damn, that comment didn't help much! LOL. I really want to get it working man. I think I have installed it over 10 times now. Still not stable. Also, any notification will freeze and crash the app. Does it run for you even after some kind of notification in background??
Also, curious why you would use ISO 50 with this camera though?
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Lower ISO settings is best for when you already have plenty of light entering your sensor. You would use a higher ISO in low light conditions to make your sensor more sensitive to light thus giving you a faster shutter speed to help prevent blur. The trade off to a higher ISO is more noise in your image...the lower the ISO the less noise in your image but also a slower shutter speed....which is fine as long as you already have enough light.
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pookieguy said:
Damn, that comment didn't help much! LOL. I really want to get it working man. I think I have installed it over 10 times now. Still not stable. Also, any notification will freeze and crash the app. Does it run for you even after some kind of notification in background??
Also, curious why you would use ISO 50 with this camera though?
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Oh and yeah like i said...everything works perfect except when i want to choose a specific metering...then ill switch to stock app for that. I emailed the dev and there back to work on it on jan 29th.
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Yeah, I knew all that already. Just never thought of such low setting with a phone camera. Anyways, ill keep trying here and see if I can get it working. Also, what compression setting do you have it set at?
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Yeah, I knew all that already. Just never thought of such low setting with a phone camera. Anyways, ill keep trying here and see if I can get it working. Also, what compression setting do you have it set at?
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ISO is ISO dslr...point and shoot...camera phone...it works in the same manner.
My compression is set to 100% maximum quality.
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I just upgraded to ICS. So far I am having a few really annoying usability issues. I was hoping someone might have ideas:
1. Things seem more laggy. Ive read enough posts about this to know I need to wait and see for a couple of days and then consider a reset.
2. Power Saving Widget - I am a heavy user of this widget. It fit very nicely on the homescreen before, and you could easily scroll through all the buttons when needed. Now its HUGE and I cannot fit it on my homescreen. Has anyone found a way to resize it?
3. My Direct Dial / DIrect Message Shortcuts. They all got wiped out. Now when I add them back to the homescreen they have annoying labels (like "mobile") across the faces of my contact pictures. Any way to remove them? No point in having the pictures when the word labels block them out completely anyway!
Are you on the official ics 4.04 room or a custom rom? Are you using the the original launcher or something like apex or nova?
If you long press the widget it should let you resize with 4 dots... I'm not using touchwiz so i may be wrong on that
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droid512 said:
Are you on the official ics 4.04 room or a custom rom? Are you using the the original launcher or something like apex or nova?
If you long press the widget it should let you resize with 4 dots... I'm not using touchwiz so i may be wrong on that
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I am on official and I am Touchwiz. When I long press I only get an option to delete.
For the battery widget, I'd recommend using Battery Widget by Elvision. Even puts the widget right in the status bar.
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sly-tendencies said:
For the battery widget, I'd recommend using Battery Widget by Elvision. Even puts the widget right in the status bar.
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Thanks. Actually what I use a lot is the ability with one touch to turn off/on wireless, gps, adjust screen brightness...
the old power controls worked great - i dont know why they thought blowing it up to half a screen in size was a good idea!
root and install a custom rom that has it all in the pulldown
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root and install a custom rom that has it all in the pulldown
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Actually at this point IM trying to figure out how I get back to 2.3.6
Why? Gingerbad lol
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lirong said:
Actually at this point IM trying to figure out how I get back to 2.3.6
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I went from stock GB to stock ICS. I totally agree with your assessment. What were they thinking on the power widget? The old one worked great, you could shift it sideways if you wanted to see the other controls. This half screen thing is crap.
Mine has been much more laggy and I have had TouchWiz force close a lot. Never had Touchwiz FC even once that with GB.
Overall seems like someone left my ice cream sandwitch out in the sun and the whole thing has turned into a mushy melty mess.
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I went from stock GB to stock ICS. I totally agree with your assessment.
Mine has been much more laggy and I have had TouchWiz force close a lot. Never had Touchwiz FC even once that with GB.
Overall seems like someone left my ice cream sandwitch out in the sun and the whole thing has turned into a mushy melty mess.
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Instead of whining , work out your problems and learn how to troubleshoot..
1st,how did you install the stock ICS ?
2nd,did you do a proper wiping and cleaning before that ?
3rd,did you try a stock or custom recovery resets and wipe after the update ?
Stock ICS now on my SR is smooth and I have zero problems , But I admit that GB is a bit faster(smoother) , but just a bit.........
mahanddeem said:
Instead of whining , work out your problems and learn how to troubleshoot..
1st,how did you install the stock ICS ?
2nd,did you do a proper wiping and cleaning before that ?
3rd,did you try a stock or custom recovery resets and wipe after the update ?
Stock ICS now on my SR is smooth and I have zero problems , But I admit that GB is a bit faster(smoother) , but just a bit.........
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I'm usually pretty good at troubleshooting. Wondering how you know what troubleshooting I've already gone through?
1. Installed from stock GB to ICS via kies. GB was rooted but with stock recovery. Did not un-root before update.
2. Did clear cache before the Kies update. Removed several apps that are easy to reinstall. Didn't and don't want to have to do a factory reset. What else should I have cleaned?
3. After having issues, cleared cache again. Using stock recovery for now.
If you have any ideas how I should proceed, I'm all ears.
Seems wierd but if I have the "agenda" widget on a home screen, things get all flakey.
Thanks.
jimhlt said:
I'm usually pretty good at troubleshooting. Wondering how you know what troubleshooting I've already gone through?
1. Installed from stock GB to ICS via kies. GB was rooted but with stock recovery. Did not un-root before update.
2. Did clear cache before the Kies update. Removed several apps that are easy to reinstall. Didn't and don't want to have to do a factory reset. What else should I have cleaned?
3. After having issues, cleared cache again. Using stock recovery for now.
If you have any ideas how I should proceed, I'm all ears.
Seems wierd but if I have the "agenda" widget on a home screen, things get all flakey.
Thanks.
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Yes I have a good idea for you...
Reboot to CWM , format everything you find there then reboot to download mode. odin 4.0.4 sammobile tar...Reboot again then reset to factory defaults from ICS recovery...
mahanddeem said:
Instead of whining , work out your problems and learn how to troubleshoot..
1st,how did you install the stock ICS ?
2nd,did you do a proper wiping and cleaning before that ?
3rd,did you try a stock or custom recovery resets and wipe after the update ?
Stock ICS now on my SR is smooth and I have zero problems , But I admit that GB is a bit faster(smoother) , but just a bit.........
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mahanddeem said:
Yes I have a good idea for you...
Reboot to CWM , format everything you find there then reboot to download mode. odin 4.0.4 sammobile tar...Reboot again then reset to factory defaults from ICS recovery...
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Thanks. That's already on my list of options, just at the bottom.. I don't want to start over with a "clean" phone if possible.
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Thanks. That's already on my list of options, just at the bottom.. I don't want to start over with a "clean" phone if possible.
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clean phone is nice, its not as sticky afterwards
to flash stock read this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1652398
After the upgrade via Kies the camera on my Galaxy Skyrocked doesn’t work. There is only a message “unfortunately the camera has stopped” My phone has stock room and its not rooted.
Any advice will be welcome. Factory reset doesn’t fix the bug.
In all fairness, while this forum and its members are great exactly because they can give help like this, I dont think to get a functional OS on my phone I should need to be flashin, rooting or anything like that. Im still a novice and I am not comfortable doing those things. I did exactly as instructed by Samsung Kies and ended up with a phone whose functionality is below par and certainly below where it was. Its very frustrating.
I love all the suggestions, but at this point I just dont feel capable of doing some of these things.
Plus some of the things like the labels across people's faces on my Direct Dial shortcuts is just an ICS feature. Little things like those Direct Dial/Message photo shortcuts were such a cool part of Android, and now with labels across them there isnt even a point in having those pictures. Changes like this are very detrimental IMO, and I still have seen very little regarding the benefits/tradeoffs of the ICS platform...
lirong said:
I just upgraded to ICS. So far I am having a few really annoying usability issues. I was hoping someone might have ideas:
1. Things seem more laggy. Ive read enough posts about this to know I need to wait and see for a couple of days and then consider a reset.
2. Power Saving Widget - I am a heavy user of this widget. It fit very nicely on the homescreen before, and you could easily scroll through all the buttons when needed. Now its HUGE and I cannot fit it on my homescreen. Has anyone found a way to resize it?
3. My Direct Dial / DIrect Message Shortcuts. They all got wiped out. Now when I add them back to the homescreen they have annoying labels (like "mobile") across the faces of my contact pictures. Any way to remove them? No point in having the pictures when the word labels block them out completely anyway!
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I know your preference is to touch changes directly, but Let me just make a suggestion use apex launcher is so smooth. Todo manage your Power there are a ton of apps to manage example: battery booster, go powermaster.
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netomel said:
I know your preference is to touch changes directly, but Let me just make a suggestion use apex launcher is so smooth. Todo manage your Power there are a ton of apps to manage example: battery booster, go powermaster.
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Thanks I am open to trying another launcher. will check out apex.
I downloaded Power Controls which seems to be OK although I preferred the Gingerbread power widget more.
Now if I can just get the whole lagginess to go away...
If you want to stay on ICS just like GB you got to Root and freeze all att crap i use titanium backup. Also disable account sync información settings. I Tell you apex and nova are super smooth.
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netomel said:
If you want to stay on ICS just like GB you got to Root and freeze all att crap i use titanium backup. Also disable account sync información settings. I Tell you apex and nova are super smooth.
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I was using ICS on my previous device the Nexus S , never rooted it and never needed to ... The same in SR there's a GREAT feature in ICS in which you can desable 90% of the crappy at&t bloat and silly Google apps (Google+ in my case) ... In addition to multilanguage support ICS is a sure great OS and a true leap aheah from GB
Hello,
I have had a UK Vodafone Sensation for about a year and decided to get one that had been rooted to play with. I got it off ebay. It was really really good other than battery life ,,,, and then I spotted that the softkeys (the four buttons at the bottom of the phone) are permanently on ... unless I turn the phone right off.
When the phone arrived it had 4EXT with ICE and Sense and it was only come the evening of the second day I spotted why battery life was not good!! I tried various thing - Screen Filter, Juice Defender and other bits and pieces and then saw the AOKP Jelly Bean ROM and decided I'd start from scratch .. well almost. I'd also noticed that it said the phone type was Sensation XE.
I replaced 4EXT with CWM and flashed the AOKP Jelly Bean ROM. All went according to plan considering I'm a 63 year old noobie!! Well OK until I saw the softkeys were still illuminated all the time unless I turned the phone off. I'd got my apps and contacts on the SD card and installed the purchased version of APEX Pro that I'd been using on my non rooted phone. No amount of changes to anything I can thikn of turns them off ... but my phone does now say it's a SENSATION rather than a SENSATION XE.
I've run the battery flat and started afresh with it newly charged which has increased battery life but with these darn softkeys lit up it will never be good..
I have thought of taking it into a shop where they mainly deal with smashed screens all day long and see if it is possible to have the led backlight for the softkeys removed. I've looked at any amount of youtube videos and they all stop short of showing me the bit I want to see!! If the keys don't work afterwards its no drama as I can put 'Navigation' keys at the bottom of the screen from the ROM.
Any ideas anybody?? Your help and advice will be much appreciated.
Phil
look here ..bit difficult ..but it might solve your issue
ganeshp said:
look here ..bit difficult ..but it might solve your issue
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Hi Ganeshp. I tired to install gscript lite when I was running ICS. I managed it this time by reading what it actually said to do!!! lol.
Unfortunately even though it seemed to install ok and I ran the scripts ok it wouldn't actually get fully running before saying it had stopped. It seems other had had a similar experience. I tried various reboots etc and it still wouldn't run which is a shame as it really looked like it was the answer.
Thanks again but unfortunately I'm still looking for an answser,
Phil
Would it have anything to do with kernel setup? Just a thought. I don't know enough to actually advise you, but your led issue may be linked to the kernel.
some roms have the option built in to disable the capacitive buttons backlight, by using tweaks. ViperS rom has it built in, or you could download LeeDroid/Darkforest tweaks in the dev section. theres an option in the tweaks to disable the backlight. give that a shot before having someone look at it
aznprodgy said:
some roms have the option built in to disable the capacitive buttons backlight, by using tweaks. ViperS rom has it built in, or you could download LeeDroid/Darkforest tweaks in the dev section. theres an option in the tweaks to disable the backlight. give that a shot before having someone look at it
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Hello and thanks for the last two replies, I'll check out LeeDroid Darkforest tweak and it would be good is somebody could describe the Tasker method in this topic, We're off on holiday for 3 weeks tomorrow and will be taking my old faithful Nokia N95 so if this isn't sorted by tmw I'll go back to it when I get back.
Phil
noobvice said:
Hello and thanks for the last two replies, I'll check out LeeDroid Darkforest tweak and it would be good is somebody could describe the Tasker method in this topic, We're off on holiday for 3 weeks tomorrow and will be taking my old faithful Nokia N95 so if this isn't sorted by tmw I'll go back to it when I get back.
Phil
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I've been trying a couple of things from elsewhere on this site and still no joy. Tried tasker and rootdim but still no joy.
I couldn't see how to download LeeDroid/Darkforest tweaks ... only saw the option to flash a new rom and I don't really want to do that. If I could download just the tweaks I'd be willing to try that but not the full package.
Tks again for your help ... holiday tomorrow and I think I'll have to leave this until after I come back.
Phil
noobvice said:
I've been trying a couple of things from elsewhere on this site and still no joy. Tried tasker and rootdim but still no joy.
I couldn't see how to download LeeDroid/Darkforest tweaks ... only saw the option to flash a new rom and I don't really want to do that. If I could download just the tweaks I'd be willing to try that but not the full package.
Tks again for your help ... holiday tomorrow and I think I'll have to leave this until after I come back.
Phil
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LeeDroid tweaks and Darkforest tweaks are both for Sense 3.6 roms. ViperS is Sense 4 so these wouldnt work with that rom, but tweaks are already built in to it
LeeDroid= 3.32 base firmware http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=24535142&postcount=5
Darkforest= 3.33 base firmware http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=30132538&postcount=5
Can't you just do that by going into android settings and setting the backlight duration to never. OR You can install Total screen control from Android market. Go onto settings> softkeys backlight and click disable backlight. Then you have to select a screen filter value at which to disable softkeys backlight eg. 50% value. Your phone's backlight should turn off when your screen filter value is set to 50%. You have to be rooted for this to work.
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gantavya said:
Can't you just do that by going into android settings and setting the backlight duration to never. OR You can install Total screen control from Android market. Go onto settings> softkeys backlight and click disable backlight. Then you have to select a screen filter value at which to disable softkeys backlight eg. 50% value. Your phone's backlight should turn off when your screen filter value is set to 50%. You have to be rooted for this to work.
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Hello and thanks to all who have replied. I'm now back from holiday and have tried all the things mentioned in this thread and they are either not available for my phone or they install ok but don't do what it says on the box. I'm going to try the ViperS ROM now and see if the tweak it seems to have for turning on/off the capacative lights works.
Tks.
Phil