Gingerbread on lepan TC970 (Beta6 GPS enabled) - Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]

It has been a while since I published the screenshot of gingerbread on TC970. Now you can flash it on your toy. But remember: I am not responsible on any damages it might cause although I have fully test it on my own.
Credit:
Thanks chinabull for exploring the structure of griffin firmware and fv+ for wonderful tool to packer/unpacker custom firmware!
Procedure:
1) Download the griffin.zip and extract it to your SD card root folder.
2) Copy the update.zip to your SD card somewhere you will find it in recovery.
3) Power on your tablet with Volume down + Power key and wait a while (5 seconds) then release those keys
4) Do a Nandroid backup first!!! (You can get official version back in anytime)
5) Flash the update.zip
Enjoy!!
PS:
A lot of features are not working, like camera, audio etc. But at least WIFI and EGL are working. You can help to fix it.
[Update] Feb 10. 2012
Audio is working now, you can download the attached file and extract it.
c:\>adb shell
#mount -o rw,remount /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
#exit
c:\>adb push alsa.omap3.so /system/lib/hw
c:\>adb shell reboot
[Update] Feb 15. 2012
Audio playback OK
SD mount OK
Bluetooth OK
Display up-side down OK
Sensor (G-sensor, compass, light sensor) working, but not fully function with auto rotation
Beta 2
[Update] Feb 21. 2012
Video Playback OK
Auto rotation OK
Add LCD brightness to Auto (light sensor) OK
Camera and GPS ------- Not working
Beta 3
[Update] Feb 24. 2012
Charge in power off state -- OK
Just flash it on top of Beta 3, it wont delete any of your data or app.
Beta 3.1 Charger
[Update] Mar 18. 2012
This is the fresh installation, so, backup first!!
Audio capture OK
Camera OK
Integrated with the latest Google play.
---------------- I have put device files into my github.com account, see my signature.
Camcorder is not working.
720P video playback not working
GPS not working
Beta4
[Update] Apr 16. 2012
This is the fresh installation, so, backup first!!
720P video playback working
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Camcorder is not working.
GPS not working
Beta5
[Update] May 07. 2012
Patch release for Skype voice call, see attachment.
No need to backup.
[Update] May 25. 2012
GPS is enabled now.
Digital compass fixed.
This version is a patch release. Flash Beta6_GPS-sign.zip on top of Beta5.1
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Camcorder is still not working. But I don't want to work on this anymore.
[Update] Aug 20. 2012
This version change is big and it is not compatible with the previous Nandroid backup.
1) ODEXed. To save some space and performance improved.
2) Enable NAND userdata partition to save 220MB from MMC( data partition)
3) Haptic fixed for visual key.
4) Native build image from CM, so there is no customized install message shows up and no Google APP and framework included, you need to install Googleapp separately.
Install method:
BACKUP first!
1) In recovery, do factory reset
2) Install cm-7-xxxx-griffin.zip
3) Install update_griffin-core-sign.zip
4) Install gapps-gb-xxxx-signed.zip
5) Reboot.
Beta 6.1
[Update] Oct 25. 2012
Enable offline charge functionality. Please download the attachment up_ram6.3_charger_sign.zip and install.

To do list:
The following feature is not working or working well, I put the priority:
0) VIDEO playback -- Done
1) SD mount -- Done
2) Audio (Playback)-- Done
3) Bluetooth -- Done
4) Sensors (G-sensor, eCompass, light etc) Done
5) Display up side down (Done)
6) Power off charge -- Done
8) GPS (Done)
9) Video capture
I really don't have enough time to deal all those and I am going to release the device folder for lepan griffin that some developer may take some work on it.

CM9 Alpha, advanced user only. So no detailed information.
WiFi you have to set static IP.
http://www.fileswap.com/dl/IdB4GeRM2p/update-cm-9.0.0-RC0-griffin.Alpha1-sign.zip.html

Dude, you rock! Thanks SO much for this! I know there's gonna be a lot of happy TC970 users this morning!

cool man )

Great job cas....and thanks to chinabull and fv too. I know i appreciate all the hard work

Excellent stuff! Once audio/camera is working, I'll be sending that cash your way!

Thank you so much for the hard work, cas_xp, fv+, chinabull - you all rock. Done what L:e Pan/Matsunichi won't for us users.
Appreciated, thank you!

Does a *jig*. I know lots and lots of people will be happy about this cas! Great work man

Installed, worked well and I had never used CWM until now. First impressions:
- It is really pretty, smooth and fast. I like it, everyone will love it.
- Most serious issue for me atm is storage, we can't mount the SD yet, so I can't even take some screenshots.
Hopefully soon, and now the Beta is out, other people can test and maybe suggest fixes for what is missing.
Great upgrade for the stock OS. Thumbs up.

This is epic! Well done to all who contributed! and thank you for your time!

We have some screen snapshots, for people who are curious to see what it looks like - it's very pretty.
Click and see them here: desktop 1, desktop 2, system info - all snapshots courtesy of Bigtech113 at another forum.
Thanks, dev team.

Thank you very much! Once the audio issue is fixed, I will jump in this upgrade!

Congratulations cas_xp!!!!!
This is a major milestone!
Thanks a million!

Awesome Job!
I would try the beta but I have to have a fully functioning tablet. I just can't wait till all the kinks are worked out so I can rock the Gingerbread, it's gonna be sweet.

Well ****. I managed to get it stuck in a boot loop. I backed up Froyo with the CWM that was distributed first (the one that was upside down). Then I flashed on Gingerbread, and it worked fine. But I was just doing it to test, and I went to restore Froyo and got an error pertaining to the md5 checksum, or something like that. I figured I'd just restart into Gingerbread, but ya now it just shows "Le Pan" vibrates, turns off and repeats. Tried holding down the reset button and holding power/volume down to boot into recovery and no dice. I guess I'll try running down the battery now, but bleh idk what to do.

You can get it back. Get a sd with stock image, hold volume up button, reset, select download mode, flash.
Cancambo said:
Well ****. I managed to get it stuck in a boot loop. I backed up Froyo with the CWM that was distributed first (the one that was upside down). Then I flashed on Gingerbread, and it worked fine. But I was just doing it to test, and I went to restore Froyo and got an error pertaining to the md5 checksum, or something like that. I figured I'd just restart into Gingerbread, but ya now it just shows "Le Pan" vibrates, turns off and repeats. Tried holding down the reset button and holding power/volume down to boot into recovery and no dice. I guess I'll try running down the battery now, but bleh idk what to do.
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Sent from my Huawei_8100-9 using XDA App

cas_xp said:
You can get it back. Get a sd with stock image, hold volume up button, reset, select download mode, flash.
Sent from my Huawei_8100-9 using XDA App
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Ya, working on it now. Waiting for it to charge up to 60% so it will let me apply the firmware. Luckily I have 2 Le Pans in this house (haven't messed with the second one at all), so I'm using it to mess with my SD card and stuff.

Upside down.
Everything seems to be work just fine, but the screen is upside down. I tried to change rotating settings in cyanogen menu and in screen menu with no luck.

MrMad_Cat said:
Everything seems to be work just fine, but the screen is upside down. I tried to change rotating settings in cyanogen menu and in screen menu with no luck.
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You need to go into the build.prop and then you will find rotation settings in there. I believe you need it set at 90.
---------- Post added at 03:17 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:12 PM ----------
HELP --- SOLVED SEE BELOW
So after backing up with the provided CWM and flashing the update I am no stuck in a boot loop.
After the tablet started up completely the first time I logged onto my WiFi and entered my Google stuff then decided I would reboot it. So I held down the power button then selected reboot, and then selected again. Then pressed ok and it has not gotten past CM7 boot screen.
I tried getting back to CWM, no luck. Wouldn't load.
So I take out the SD card and put the default install files on it.
Attempt to flash the original OS and no luck, it wouldn't load. So now i am sitting here.
Any ideas please help, I use this for my books for class, and not don't really have my books for class.
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If you are caught in a bootloop after on the TC970 and can't get to recovery go to my post here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=22329152&postcount=23

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[ROM] Marlo Bare Bones - CM6RC2 Base 7-27-2010

.: MarloFroyoBareBones :.
Cyanogen 6.0 RC2 - "ReCooked" Bare Bones Edition
Cyanogen's Thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=722801
After ROM install: Available Space 67.74MB
After gApps install: Available Space 56.75MB
**** PLEASE READ EVERYTHING ****
**** I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE ******
Cyanogen's Pre-Req's Remain for this ROM
:::ROM = REMOVED:::
=Bluetooth.apk
=Browser.apk
=Calculator.apk
=Camera.apk
=DeskClock.apk
=Development.apk
=Email.apk
=Gallery3D.apk
=LiveWallpaperPicker.apk
=Music.apk
=PicoTts.apk
=Protips.apk
=RomManager.apk (I prefer AmonRa)
=SoundRecorder.apk
=SpeechRecorder.apk
=Stk.apk
=term.apk
=ttsservice
=voicedialer.apk
=vpnservices.apk
:::ROM = ADDED:::
=Gallery (Legacy Gallery, Not 3d)
=RealCalc (Full service Calc, not the basic one included)
=Cubed - Music Player
:::GAPPS = REMOVED:::
=Amazon MP3
=GenieWidget.apk
=googlevoice.apk
=kickback.apk
=soundback.apk
=talkback.apk
=talk.apk
=VoiceSearch.apk
I made this to my taste,
but thought I would share.
Most people have 3rd Party apps they use.
If options you need were removed,
this ROM may not be for you.
::: SD Setup :::
Swap
Fat
ext - optional - only has Froyo app2sd
::: TO INSTALL :::
- Do whatever you do for backing up, example: nandroid
- Wipe with this method:
---- While USB plugged to the computer,
---- run the bat in this post and format this way:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=6855422&postcount=3
---- to ensure full format, I also use AmonRa recovery wipe options
---- just to be safe
---- If you are comfortable in ADB, then just use it to run this command:
adb shell mount -a; rm -rf /system/*; rm -rf /data/*; rm -rf /cache/*;
---- You can skip the bat file if you do this
- Flash ROM ONLY
- Reboot Device
- After that, change whatever settings you would like. DO NOT INSTALL ANYTHING.
- Just Setup CM settings, wifi, etc (optional)
---- I like to enable wifi and put in my network key
---- so my wifi is going when the market begins
---- to sync my apps
- Reboot Recovey
- Flash GAPPS
- Reboot
- Unlock after reboot and you will be prompted with the Google sign in.
---- After unlock, I usually plug it in, have wifi enabled,
---- set it up under 'USB Debugging' to "stay awake when plugged in"
---- and leave it alone for a bit. This way, you aren't stressing out your system
---- while the market is downloading 100 apps at once lol
---- This is also why I reboot and setup PRIOR to installing gapps.
---- A reboot or three may be needed to ensure everything is settled in nicely
---- If you are wondering where your responsiveness is, look at your downloads
---- in the market, see if you are still syncing. If you reboot during some downloads,
---- you may need to cancel and restart them.
Fully Tested on my G1.
Current Phone Specs:
- Danger SPL
- G1-radio-2_22_23_02
- Dithering OFF (CM Options)
- 96mb Swap
- 512mb ext3 - just in case, this way, if I need an ext partition, I dont
-------------- have to re-format the entire card.
I am not responsible for any outcome
due to your use of this ROM in any way.
Use at your own risk.
Credits:
Cyanogen and everyone who built CM6RC2, as I used it as a base.
SpeedTeam : XxKOLOHExX
Relentless ROM Roaster - relentlessappz.com
ROM Kitchen
XDA Community
=========================================================
Marlo's ROM: http://www.mediafire.com/?mx2jmwxlcpemtnv
Marlo's GAPPS: http://www.mediafire.com/?tdwki25qghodu1d
no camera? :/
jewishjawsh said:
no camera? :/
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Like I said, I use 3rd party apps for that.
I use Camera Zoom FX and mAPPn360
Those apps are much slower than the stock camera app imo. What's wrong with the camera app included in CM6? Snappy for me
jewishjawsh said:
Those apps are much slower than the stock camera app imo. What's wrong with the camera app included in CM6? Snappy for me
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As I stated:
I made this to my taste,
but thought I would share.
Most people have 3rd Party apps they use.
If options you need were removed,
this ROM may not be for you.
If you want the app that bad, extract it from CM6 and install it on here.
Or, not use this ROM. Simple.
Great work Marlo, nice light ROM. Keep up the great work and I do appreciate your hard work and thanks for sharing your work.
Also appreciate the work on this Marlo!
Flashing now
You should call this No bloat lol
stlouie65 said:
Great work Marlo, nice light ROM. Keep up the great work and I do appreciate your hard work and thanks for sharing your work.
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RandumAccess said:
Also appreciate the work on this Marlo!
Flashing now
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Thanks guys. I appreciate your appreciation.
Zei said:
You should call this No bloat lol
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I was going to leave the "nes" of Bones...
MarLo FroYo BareBo
So far, no hiccups on my end.
Yea great job now i don't have to do all this myself =]
Bloat-Freeeee
stlouie65 said:
Great work Marlo, nice light ROM. Keep up the great work and I do appreciate your hard work and thanks for sharing your work.
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answr said:
Yea great job now i don't have to do all this myself =]
Bloat-Freeeee
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I knew I wasn't the only one who didn't want all the other junk!
Hey marlo, I have a problem. I've never modded my g1 before and decided to do this rom first off. I went back and rooted it and then installed amon ra recovery and did radio update to 2.22 and danger spl.
I flashed your rom through recovery and it booted up fine the first three times but for some reason now it wont stop rebooting. It gets to the home screen, "press menu(my bad) 'swipe' to unlock", for about a second or two and then screen fades as if I did a battery pull. Then boots right back up.
I'm going to try some things when i get home, in recovery, when I wipe before install, am I suppossed to wipe all options in that sub menu? Any help would be much appreciated! Thank you and all others in advance.
Alright still having the same problem. I loaded in recovery and wiped everything except the sdcard partition, which I dont have my sdcard partitioned, so I didnt want to do it and wipe my rom zip.
After wiping everything else I reflashed the rom from sd. And rebooted from recovery. Rom loaded up great and worked perfect on first boot for about an hour until I decided to reboot it to make sure everything was working great and it started again.
Will load up to "swipe to unlock" and once its done preparing sd card it fades like I did a batt pull. Help, please?
Ok, sorry I wasn't following forum rules. I didn't know the meaning of the term "search". I spent a good 45 straight minutes searching just now as well as searching earlier today, but you guys are right, it pays off. I had wifi on, and only after a reboot would it go into the wifi reboot bug because on first launch with no wifi on it would connect without rebooting.
Hey marlo, I have some questions about this build and about a stripped down version of android to run games. Answer on here if you like, but I'll PM you about it.
Sorry for the delay. Your bug may have something to do with cyanogen, or what I removed. CM has been known to do similar things.
I never experienced your scenario, but I'm not saying I doubt you.
Games ran fine for me, I played robo defense all the time.
Thanks for trying my version of CM.
Sent from my SGH-T959 using XDA App
I wanted to use my old g1 as just a game machine. Do u think u can cook me a stripped down rom with the best attributes to run games?
Sent from my T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide using XDA App
Browser
Hi Marlo , was just wondering how i get the browser back as everytime i install the browser.apk from CM6 it force closes. thanks,
appreciate the ROM as well , great job!
Twinny
Great Job
Great job Marlo. I like what you did with the Mod. Without all other stuff on there my battery last longer. Now i can add the .apk that i want.

[ROM][17/11/2010] VillainROM G2-DHD v0.1 BETA - Clean senseless ROM

This is a clean rom based on the stock G2 rom, is still only for testing as hasnt been fully tested. ROM Still has a few bugs.
PLEASE POST REPLIES ON VILLAINROM, I MAY NOT SEE THEM ON HERE
Changelog;
v1.0 - Latest
-Initial Release
DOWNLOAD (And screenshots)
Known Issues;
-Camera only works at 3mp (HD Recording does work)
-Dialler adds dashes between numbers
-Screen goes black for a while on first boot
-Bluetooth wont turn on
How to flash;
Method 1;
1: Download ROM Manager from Market
2: Open ROM Manager and select Install ROM From SD
3: Select ROM file and tick options you want (I recommend selecting both)
4: Wait for ROM to flash and phone to reboot
Method 2;
1: Boot into Clockwork Recovery (Hold volume down when turning on phone and select recovery)
3: Select flash zip from sdcard
4: Select ROM file and then confirm
5: Wait for All Done! message
6: A wipe is recommended but not required, if you experience force closes or things not working, try wiping before posting problems.
CLOCKWORK MOD IS REQUIRED TO FLASH AND CAN BE DOWNLOADED HERE
DISCLAIMER - VILLAINROM AND MYSELF ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE CAUSED TO YOUR DEVICE BY USING THIS ROM, YOU FLASH THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK!
Credits go to - Modaco (For initial ROOT & working Recovery IMG), Kendon (For boot.img), The VillainROM Team, and to everyone who has supported the android development world, i wouldnt be doing this without your support!
First!!
Just flashing now.. will edit this post with my views and constructive criticism
All boots fine and works seemingly well. It has come to my attention that it is are still many G2 remnants such as quick keys in settings and US tmobiles setup page. However something im slightly more interested about is that if you can easily port over a G2 rom could you do the same with a G2 version of CyanogenMod for our DHD's? Feedback would be greatly appreciated on the matter!
Noted bugs:
Quick keys in settings and setup
Bluetooth doesn't activate
No fastboot(could be added?)
Gtalk etc could be removed due to DHD being UK only
Swype doesnt acctually swipe it works as only a standalone qwerty
I will update when i witness more bugs, extensive testing will occur on weekends only ! BTW IT WORKS GREAT + VERY SMOOOTH!!
Works great! It´s very very fast and smoothy...no issues so far...i´m gonna keep an eye in this rom..looking forward new releases!
Kepp going with ur good job!
Excellent work
Possibly my fault but i cant seem to get my bluetooth working ?
im going to try port cyan mod but it seems to be harder than the stock G2 rom for some reason, there are only G2 parts that i cannot remove as they are more embeded than others, this is only a quick port to see how much work needed doing, i will continue to work on it to improve it, if anyone else can confirm bluetooth isnt working and ill look into it
RaiderX303 said:
im going to try port cyan mod but it seems to be harder than the stock G2 rom for some reason, there are only G2 parts that i cannot remove as they are more embeded than others, this is only a quick port to see how much work needed doing, i will continue to work on it to improve it, if anyone else can confirm bluetooth isnt working and ill look into it
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Im happy to hear you are trying to port over CM6 for the DHD and if you need someone to test roms etc PM me and i am willing to help. If you could add lack of fastboot to the bug list as well, however i was under the impression the g2 should have this anyway, or is it a sense only feature?
RaiderX303 said:
if anyone else can confirm bluetooth isnt working and ill look into it
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Confirmed. Cant turn it on.
Good job on this one.
Bluetooth fix
Adwinp seems to have fixed bluetooth in his AOSP build so you could ask him how he managed to get it done, probably the same fix is necessary. Obviously all credit to adwinp for establishing the fix.

[ROM] (Flytouch 2, SuperPad, WWE10) Froyo

This thread is for the custom Froyo rom for the Flytouch 2. It is a port of the first Flytouch 3/Superpad 2 Froyo rom, adapted to run on the flytouch 2. I will update this post whenever a new version has been released.
This rom will only run on tablets which display a version number in the bottom-right "Infotmic" screen when first turned on.. If yours doesn't display a number there, you will need to flash firmware v2852 first, see below in FLASHING V2852
INSTALLATION
Installation is slightly different from normal releases because it requires flashing in 2 steps. Luckily, it's really easy:
1. Download bootable SD-card image and unzip. Pick an image from the RELEASES section at the end of this post.
2. Write image to an SD-card that's at least 1GB in size using Win32DiskImager:
Get Win32DiskImager here: https://launchpad.net/win32-image-writer
In Win32DiskImager: When you open it, there is a button to browse the .img file and after that, at the right of this button there is a selector for the SD-card. Select it, then click write and it's done.
When finished, take out the card.
In linux, you just unzip the file and use dd to write it to the sd-card:
Code:
dd if=/path/to/sdcard.img of=/dev/sdX # (where sdX is your scsi disk device, check dmesg)
3. Turn off tablet and put sd-card in TOP slot (between the 2 usb ports).
4. Turn on tablet. It will report that it is booting off the sd-card, and that it's flashing kernel + filesystems.
5. Take out the sd-card when the tablet asks you to do so (takes less than a minute). Put it in the OTHER sd-card slot (bottom one), and reboot the tablet by holding down the power for 10 seconds to turn it off, then press it again to turn it on.
6. You will now see the tablet booting with a *GREEN* screen. The screen will flash twice to indicate it's starting. The flashing itself will take longer than in the previous step, a few minutes. If succesful, it will automatically reboot, after which you're done and you're booting the new firmware! You'll see a different boot screen (equalizer on a black background)
7. After it has booted and you have unlocked the screen, reboot the tablet first thing! First boots in android always tend to be behave erratically. This is unrelated to this firmware and applies to all Android setups.
If step 6 fails (which is very unlikely), it will stay on the green screen and it will keep on flashing the screen. In that case, you'll have to turn it off. Most likely problem for this is a corrupt SD-card. See troubleshooting below.
Make sure to never put that sd-card back in the top-slot without erasing it first, as it will reflash your tablet!
TROUBLESHOOTING
The 'green screen' keeps flashing!
The installer will dump a text file on the root of the sd-card which you can inspect. The file is called fail_reason.txt. If no such file exists, things are seriously wrong and the tablet couldn't even properly write to the sd-card. If using another SD-card, or rewriting the SD-card doesn't help, please upload the fail_reason.txt file here.
Flashing was succesful, but the system freezes at the android animation!
For this firmware to work, you need to have a recent version of u-boot. You can tell if you have this by looking at the INFOTMIC bootscreen you see when you turn on the tablet. If the bottom right corner does not show a version number, then you don't have it.See instructions below.
FLASHING V2852
You need to flash this firmware to install a new version of u-boot. To flash this firmware, you will need to connect your tablet to your PC using an USB A-A cable, OR create a bootable SD-card.
Download firmware V2852: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?3bkklw36b1414nd
Download and unpack IUW: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?3572bd7zfjo0r0y
Start IUW
If you use an USB cable: Click 'Link USB' on the left, select 'easy burn' from USB Mode pulldown in the right. Connect tablet to PC with the tablet turned offf, then turn it on by pressing & holding the menu+home buttons, then pressing the power button until it turns on. Release the menu+home buttons after a few seconds. Windows should now detect a new USB device. Install the drivers that are in the iuw1.1/otg_driver directory.
If you create a bootable SD-card, Click 'boot disk' on the left instead. Select sd-card to flash on the right
Select the IUS file form the v2852 firmware under 'Choose a wrapped image'
Click 'burn' to flash the tablet or create the sd-card. If you created an sd-card, boot the tablet with the sd-card in the top-slot, between the 2 USB connections.
TODO
How to enable 3G support for USB dongles?
(**) Tested:
wifi, ethernet port
battery status works, g-sensor works
touchscreen works, including calibration
HD video playback works (I recommend Meridian player)
Market works (full), Youtube works
angry birds works ( thought I'd mention it )
The firmware has already been rooted! You can connect using adb over wifi, and type 'su' to become root. Find your IP address using the Android System Info app.
GPS confirmed
VIDEO
Video demonstrating how to flash the tablet after having created the bootable SD-card: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47kf4-Vbba8#t=3
RELEASES
April 24th 2011, V5: http://www.mediafire.com/?1ka7ngpi82grmfm
Added older version of YouTube (1.6.21) which works
Fix touchscreen calibration
Added LauncherPro as alternative launcher
March 2011, V4: http://www.mediafire.com/?oc1bwnq71smb09k
verandi said:
Hi everyone.
I just made a personal version of system.tar.gz, and I thought it could be usefull for someone.
Most considerable changes:
Calendar and contacts synchronization now working again.
Simple stock froyo keyboard, without chinese characters.
Replaced youtube with the old working version.
Market updated to last version (no paid apps, though.).
Default launcher replaced with launcher pro, which is considerably faster.
Removed phone and telephony settings (see below)
Other changes:
Removed stock browser, replaced with dolphin browser HD.
Removed default file explorer, replaced with File expert (first free file explorer with working root that I found).
Changed alarm clock.
Changed calculator (but has wrong visualization).
Changed music player with music mod.
Added facebook, maps (+ navigation + latitude +places), chrome to phone, google search, google reader, terminal emulator, Titanium backup, voice search. adobe reader.
Maybe I deleted some other stupid flytouch stock apps, but actually I don't remember.
Warning, notes etc...:
All apps are free apps from market.
Phone apps (Phone.apk, TelephonySettings.apk) removed for test, due to suspected battery drain (Someone said so...), so:
Phone settings don't work (gives you force close when you tap on mobile settings menu)
Don't install if you use 3g adapters, as I think you won't be able to use them.
Maybe some future workarounds for paid apps on market won't work.
App2sd doesn't work. (Didn't even work before. I think there's some problem in the kernel with device mapper and crypto). I'll try to implement the fake app2sd that uses an ext partition on sd.
This is just a personal versionof stargulus' system files with apps I'm used to have on my phone, so maybe it won't fit you.
How to install:
First important step: boot in recovery mode (back + home +power until you get in recovery menu), and wipe cache and data. This must be done. It also helps to have stragulus' calibration file installed correctly.
Prepare the sd as described in the first post of this thread using the last Stragulus' sdcard image (v4, See link in this post).
Go to "stage2" directory and replace system.tar.gz and system.tar.gz.md5 with the downloaded ones.
Flash.
The first boot will be quite long, but it's normal.
While using the flytouch for the first time, it will probably lag and hang. Just reboot and it won't happen anymore.
File link: http://www.multiupload.com/Z9CONJVPQO
I hope this will be usefull. Advices are welcome.
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Cheers! I welcome custom mods of the base rom. I'm willing to add them as alternatives to the first post by linking to the introductory posts. In this case, it looks like parts of it are suitable for integrating into the base froyo rom (e.g. calendar & contact sync fix). What exactly did you do to fix those?
Wonderful, downloading now at 7.8K/sec (why sooooo slow?)
Is Google Sync fixed?
Thanks,
Barak
Later:
Well, if I add Verandi's MOD I get sync but I loose calibration option.
Still, I prefer the MOD with sync.
Thank you guys. Amazing Job !!!
1-5-2011
Please note that verandi has created a V5 mod that adds sync option without eliminating calibration.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=13343444&postcount=54
Good luck.
Your uboot - 0.6.1.2 (587) http://www.mediafire.com/?4hx8xt38vnhh22b
My uboot - 0.6.1.5 (587) http://www.mediafire.com/?bv4ixzeq34q5bi7
what's the latest?
which should I use?
EDIT:
If possible enable a swap partition to optimize tablet in ROM? (we have little RAM)
Camera have a problem. Green image in V5 (24/04/2011)
@ Stragulus
I've been waiting for
Thank you for your work
Market will not dowload
Well once again my hats off to you Straguls for a job well done I installed the version 5 rom with no issues however the Android Market still only displays the free apps and will not download and install any of the apps it states download unsuccessful any help with this matter would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Steve
stragulus said:
This rom will only run on tablets which display a version number in the bottom-right "Infotmic" screen when first turned on.
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In my case loader version number is missing. But u0 is 0.6.1.2_1.4.587_OV2655 and u-boot from 2852. And all work fine.
Probably condition is flashing firmware 2852 in the tablet instead of only u0?
IMHO.
Because the firmware is full image and contained u-boot and u0. Flashing u0 need only if camera don't work with 2852 from full image. Of course, if the tablet has not been purchased already with firmware 2852 and above. Without this step you will get many reports of "fre-e-e-ezing" or "stop in android on screen" like in the previous thread.
hello
I have stitched from card Froyo V5
The tablet is loaded and asks calibration, but it does not work: (
Was 3245, but it has ceased to be loaded and I have updated on Froyo
I do not know what at me uboot how it to look? Probably to update it with sd?
jp08 said:
загружатся
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По русски спроси. Я tuzzz c форума china-iphone.ru.
Ask question in Russian. I tuzzz from the forum china-iphone.ru.
Вообщем поставил Froyo (v5)
после прошивки при первом запуске появляется калибровка экрана, но на нажатия никак не реагирует
поставил назад 3245, на ней все нормально
Возможно ли это из-за загрузчика uboot, как можно посмотреть его версию и возможно ли обновить его с SD, т.к. возможности с ПК нету?
google translate:
In general set Froyo (v5)
after flashing at the first startup, a calibration screen, but clicking does not react
put back 3245, her everything is ok
Is this possible because of the boot uboot, as you can see its version and whether it is possible to update it with SD, because capabilities with a PC no?
Answer on russian forum.
Also read from here and below.
_barsuk_ said:
In my case loader version number is missing. But u0 is 0.6.1.2_1.4.587_OV2655 and u-boot from 2852. And all work fine.
Probably condition is flashing firmware 2852 in the tablet instead of only u0?
IMHO.
Because the firmware is full image and contained u-boot and u0. Flashing u0 need only if camera don't work with 2852 from full image. Of course, if the tablet has not been purchased already with firmware 2852 and above. Without this step you will get many reports of "fre-e-e-ezing" or "stop in android on screen" like in the previous thread.
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That could be true indeed! I thought those who fixed their problem only flashed U0, but maybe all of them actually tried to flash all of v2852 with the IUW tool. Upshot here is that it should be possible to flash the entire firmware using a bootable SD-card, e.g. not requiring an USB cable.
Can anyone confirm that creating the bootable SD-card for FW2852 using IUW as described in the first post fixed their install of the froyo setup?
If you create a bootable SD-card, Click 'boot disk' on the left instead. Select sd-card to flash on the right
Select the IUS file form the v2852 firmware under 'Choose a wrapped image'
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After Burn a card sd the empty
This way does not work
Used Win7 x64 and virtual WinXP x86
Excellent Work
Many thanks stragulus!!!!!!!
Now I once again have a usable Pad - the Calibration works perfecly!!!
My route to Froyo was from 3245 to v4. I HAD to flash U-Boot-Nand FIRST. This gave me the Infotm code in the bottom R.H.corner. The only problem was with the calibration.
Again MANY THANKS. Please continue to develop for the Pad.
jp08 said:
After Burn a card sd the empty
This way does not work
Used Win7 x64 and virtual WinXP x86
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Hmm. I do now recall that someone tried all those methods before to no avail. When I flashed this firmware, I think I did:
* Flash all of FW2852 (over USB)
* Found out that it didn't work 100% as it still booted an older ramdisk
* So after that, flashed U0 with u-boot-nand.bin. That triggered the 2-minute tablet going crazy on first boot.
* Then flashed all of FW2852 again, and now it worked.
Soo.. I think bottomline is, if you haven't seen the tablet go crazy for 2 minutes, it probably didn't work. Question is, is just flashing U0 once with u-boot-nand.bin enough..? It appears this does not work for everyone!?
stragulus said:
Cheers! I welcome custom mods of the base rom. I'm willing to add them as alternatives to the first post by linking to the introductory posts. In this case, it looks like parts of it are suitable for integrating into the base froyo rom (e.g. calendar & contact sync fix). What exactly did you do to fix those?
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Hi!
I replaced GoogleContactsSyncAdapter.apk and GoogleCalendarSyncadapter.apk with the ones from my phone. I am 98% sure I replaced only these two, because I didn't note down the names.
Now I'm trying to solve the next problem I have in the list: I can't leave the pad in standby, as it drains the battery like it was awake.
Yesterday I had a look at proc/wakelocks file to see which processes are requesting wakelocks.
Comparing this file to others around the net and the one of my phone, I found out that some processes were active during standby (they had 0 value in sleep_time row).
Now I haven't here my flytouch, so I can't be precise (I'll edit this lines next days), but I remember that some processes and powermanager were never sleeping (in all other wakelocks files, powemanager was sleeping on standby but main process not, so I think powermanager is faulty and main process not.).
Powermanager is a class contained in system/framework/services.jar so I tried replacing this file with my phone's one. It worked as the wakelocks file was showing that powermanager began to sleep on standby, but I had no improvement in battery life on standby, as, I'm quite sure, the other processes prevent the full sleep of the device.
To you and everyone who reads this: can you give me a help?
Can you fully recharge the flytouch, then disconnect the power supply, note down the start time, live it in sleep mode and then measure how long it takes to get discharged?
It tried myself today: unplugged at 16.30, left it in standby, died at around 19:20 ---> 2h50m of battery power on standby.
(If you also can tell me how long it stays on when you use it, and what kind of use you made, I would really appreciate too! )
Hail to Stragulus.. unlocking the beast!!!!
stragulus,
as usual.. I am riding on someone else's brilliance.. thanks for the update..
Will load it up tonight when get home from work..
My only wish is app2sd...
it has made such an improvement to my Evo with ability to load programs in..
So if someone wants to come up with a fix.. I am sure you will make many internally grateful!!!!
Edit after flashing:
Flashed the clean version WITHOUT verandi addons..
the Calibration works perfectly
feels fast and clean..
had problems with launcher pro .. and Titanium backup..
for some reason using Launcher pro it would not allow Titanium to see the sdcard.. thus couldnt restore my backups..
Played round for a while.. upgraded to Titanium 3.6.1.1 same thing..
went in and wiped Dalvik cache.. still no go..
have shut down launcher pro and installed ADWlauncher (almost the same as launcher pro)
walla.. now Titanium is seeing the SDcards and backup.. confirmed that it restored backed programs and data..
Market is working for me.. just wondering if we can port market from Myn’s Warm TwoPointTwo - RLS 5 into this rom..
as this may be the workaround that will get past the only free apps showing.. I am using it on my Evo and in China..
so usually only get to see free apps.. but with MWTPT I am getting all apps.. I do understand there is a app floating round that is suppose to be able to reset Market in to thinking it is in a zone that will allow it to show all apps.. may need it to load in to this Rom..
Will put it through its paces and report back over the coming week..
verandi said:
It tried myself today: unplugged at 16.30, left it in standby, died at around 19:20 ---> 2h50m of battery power on standby.
(If you also can tell me how long it stays on when you use it, and what kind of use you made, I would really appreciate too! )
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Hmmm. This time is extremely low for standby mode. I use kernel from 3245. With this kernel battery indicator won't work properly but OS works more stable.
Also I removed Phone.apk and TelephonyProvider.apk. I don't need 3g modem. And 3g modem still does not work with this firmware.
With full charged battery I disconnected charger from tablet at 22:00 (in my local time). Now is 5:25 in my local time and tablet has ~4% battery indicator. From my experience tablet shut down after 5-10 minutes. All this time tablet is in standby.
Verandi
Excellent work and thank you for the Google sync fix - it makes my wowpad WOW!!!
Can you please add these files to the V5 version? Without them there's no sync. If I add your V4 files to the V5 rom there's no calibration. I wonder what else is lost !!!
Thanks,
B
stragulus said:
Cheers! I welcome custom mods of the base rom. I'm willing to add them as alternatives to the first post by linking to the introductory posts. In this case, it looks like parts of it are suitable for integrating into the base froyo rom (e.g. calendar & contact sync fix). What exactly did you do to fix those?
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Great job. Thank you about that. I've a little question.
I've updated my Flytouch with you sdcard V5. Everything works fine, but i can't get the connection with USB 3G dongle. How i can do ?
There's a program to get the connections ?
I've tried with "quick setting" but nothing happens.
I'm looking forward to hearing from you about that.
Best regards

[ROM] Smartoonay V1.0 - Acer Iconia Smart as it should be !

Hello,
this ROM is designed for the Acer Iconia Smart. Acer's latest flagship Androphone.
All credits goes to Vache for making this great ROM !​
Here is the changelog from Vache :
Code:
T1
Based on Acer_S300_1.000.19_EMEA-GEN1
Rooted
Busybox, nano, bash...
Unsecure boot (adb remount)
semiTransparent notif
Transparent dock background
removed pagination bubble on the homescreens
Stock Lockscreen
Disable Debug USB icon
Smoother Launcher transitions
Disable camera sound
disable some useless Acer services
Removed many apps
Added TerminalEmulator
Updated all apps
SD speed tweak
Lowmemkiller tweak
Zipalign at boot for new apps
Using Google DNS
Removed craps on homescreen (widgets)
Added SpeechSynthetizer
Network tweaks
Ice Cream Sandwich bootanimation
Added compatibility swith in Settings app
Disable some animations
Disable bubble tooltip at first start
Added GoLauncher & LauncherPro (edited to fit the screen)
Added EStrong File Exploer and Task Manager
T2
Fix Phone.apk FC when calling
Fix /data mount during flash
...
T3
Fix WiFi error
AOSP Dialer
T4
Fix HotReboot when installing app that can be move to SD
ICS Market v3.2
T5
Fix typo in the update script
Back to stock Music (for notification widget)
Removed nemoPlayer
Updated SU binary and app
Updated Terminal Emulator
Updatd Youtube
ICS UI sounds
ICS Theme
T6
Removed GooglePlus 2.0 (make the contact FC when FB sync is active)
Fix Google Account disappear after some reboots
T7
Added TabooTools for Iconia Smart
Easy change Acer/Stock Contact/Lockscreen/Notifications
Updated SU binary
Fix TalkBack Keyboard FC
T8
Fix SU binary
Fix Acer Contact file name
T9
Modded hosts file for ads filter
Updated VoiceSearch
More ICS theme for framework and apps
T10
Fixed GPS and Batterie icons
Fixed ICS progress bar
Optimized automatic LCD backlight values
Added 1% batterie step in the framework
Added QuickSettings for stock notif
Fix notif switching from TabooTools
Even more ICS theme
T11
Fix Fast Dormancy
Custom kernel with OC/UV (up to 1.9Ghz)
Requirements :
- Acer Iconia Smart... obviously
- Acer drivers available HERE
- CWM recovery files for Iconia Smart. HERE
I) First Step
Update to latest Acer revision available HERE
WARNING this update will erase all your data
II) Install the custom Recovery
Plug your Iconia Smart to your PC.
Unpack the zip file containing the recovery.
Execute install_recovery.cmd and just follow the steps.
III) Preparing
Copy the ROM ( Smartoonay-1.0.zip) to your sdcard (this has to be an external sdcard, not the phone memory).
IV) Almost there
Switch off the phone and boot to recovery by pressing [vol+] + [focus] + [power]. Keep pressing the buttons until you're in the recovery (yellow text on black screen)
(You get "focus" by half pressing the camera button).
V) WIPE !
Once in the recovery choose "wipe data/factory reset" and validate (pressing camera button).
Also "wipe cache partition"
And then in "Advanced" choose "Wipe Dalvik Cache"
VI) Installing the ROM !
Go back to home menu of the recovery, choose "install zip from sd card" then "choose zip from sdcard". Find the file Smartoonay-1.0.zip (you just copied it on your sdcard) and validate to launch the installation.
Once done just reboot the phone and you're good to go !
You have just convinced me to buy this phone. I was torn between this and the Note, it's refreshing to see some Development on this.
Thankyou very much, your instructions are excellent BTW!
FYI, for me it worked once (after reset) and then went into a bootloop after installing this rom. Never got into fixing it as Vache did not respond anymore... you haven't had that issue?
Regards,
Nika.
Hi,
It bootloops on the bootanimation ? It can happen and usually it works if you remove the battery for 5min.
Can you describe where it stopped working and what you did just before it bootlooped ?
I haven't tried removing the batt, it just bootlooped after my first softreset in the morning. I did try several times, tried resetting all caches, and then reverted back to 1.000.19 eventually and gave up...
I may try again soon... too much work right now
Regards,
Nika.
Going to give it a go this evening.
Really excited to try it out.
So how did it go ?
In my case it keeps displaying the Acer / Android logo... it does not boot (just Android logo)...
Thank´s for me works well
Well...I have tried like 10 times, still nothing.
I started by installing cwm & making a backup (good step to add to your steps in the OP). Then I started install of smartoonay:
1. install 1.000.19
2. boot 1.000.19 once (& configure next, next, finish)
3. install new cwm
4. factory defaults from cwm
5. clear cache from cwm
6. clear dalvic cache from cwm
7. install smartoonay from cwm
Boot wail stop at the acer/android screen (with the 3 green androids).
I have tried fact/def from vol+/- and from cwm. I have tried clearing caches before and after smartoonay. I've downloaded smartoonay rom from vache several 3 times to make sure it's not a faulty rom... nothing...
Restored the backup: everything fine again...but still no smartoonay
Regards,
Nika.
Sorry to read that it doesn't work for you. Have you tried with the .24 official update? It did work for several people.
If it still doesn't work you might have to wait for a next release from vache that will take the smart to a new level ;-)
paugustin said:
Sorry to read that it doesn't work for you. Have you tried with the .24 official update? It did work for several people.
If it still doesn't work you might have to wait for a next release from vache that will take the smart to a new level ;-)
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Downloading now:
http://global-download.acer.com/GDF... SMART (S300)&OS=a06&LC=nl&BC=Acer&SC=EMEA_18
Regards,
Nika.
Nope... for whatever reason it doesn't work for me.
1. Install .24 version (link see above)
2. Install cwm (4.0.0.8 version from S300-recovery.img 14/07/2011)
3. factory defaults from cwm
4. clear cache from cwm
5. clear dalvic cache from cwm
6. install smartoonay from cwm
Still only see my little Android friends
That's disapointing. Keep yourhopes up as Vache is working on a whole new ROM for the Iconia Smart. It's time consuming but it's going forward and it should be worth the wait
For the current ROM I think we tried everything (removing the battery and all) already and it might be an issue with you model.
paugustin said:
That's disapointing. Keep yourhopes up as Vache is working on a whole new ROM for the Iconia Smart. It's time consuming but it's going forward and it should be worth the wait
For the current ROM I think we tried everything (removing the battery and all) already and it might be an issue with you model.
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I really hope he's able to give us something that'll work on all devices! I love Vache's work and was really disappointed when the only custom ROM we have didn't boot.
FloatingFatMan said:
I really hope he's able to give us something that'll work on all devices! I love Vache's work and was really disappointed when the only custom ROM we have didn't boot.
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It doesn't work on yours either? Did you try it? Remember my device has a defect (touchscreen top is defective), so possibly it works on yours... (and I really did everything I can think of, including formatting system, etc., manually)...
My S300 also stuck in booting screen (Acer logo with 3 android idol) after flash the Smartoonay ROM...
I forgot backup my ROM before flashing it, does any one can help me how can flash back the official ROM without backup?
nikagl said:
It doesn't work on yours either? Did you try it? Remember my device has a defect (touchscreen top is defective), so possibly it works on yours... (and I really did everything I can think of, including formatting system, etc., manually)...
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I actually had it before general release. Alas, my device just hangs until I take out the battery. Shame really, the root & cwm part worked great.
edmundtsang said:
My S300 also stuck in booting screen (Acer logo with 3 android idol) after flash the Smartoonay ROM...
I forgot backup my ROM before flashing it, does any one can help me how can flash back the official ROM without backup?
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Hi edmund,
Just download the official ROM from somewhere (OS_Acer_1.000.24.EMEA.GEN1_A23G_S300), see above post. Or find yourself another ROM (I also used EUUs_Acer_S300_1.000.19_EMEA-GEN1_01.05.00 in the past, just google for it).
Connect your device with USB and install it using the setup.exe in the download.
In my case the installer crashed btw, because I have the android sdk installed which has a newer (incompatible) version of adb. Just make sure the PATH variable does not contain the ADB.EXE (use "for %I in (adb.exe) do echo %~dp$PATH:I" to figure that out).
Good luck!
Regards,
Nika.
Dear all,
I have been trying to get this ROM going but still no success.
I have compared the two boot images, and they are almost the same. It looks like it should be possible to run the Smartoonay rom with the stock boot image. That gives the highest success as well, because when I try to use the default Smartoonay rom it will get stuck at the first Android page (so it never shows the ICS boot animation). I also tried using the Smartoonay boot image with the stock ROM, but it then also gets stuck at the Android screen (see above image)
When I use the stock boot image, it finally displays the ICS boot animation, but it will get stuck in a bootloop. Usually caused by not clearing cache and such, but no solution in my case.
When I look at recovery.log, I do see one thing that I've never seen before:
Code:
Formatting /system...
[COLOR=Red][B]mtd: not erasing bad block at 0x08e00000[/B][/COLOR]
Done.
I wonder whether this one bad block may be the cause?
Anyone any other suggestions? Or maybe some instructions (a kitchen???) on how to make a new ROM like Smartoonay did? Any new Smartoonay ROMs to look forward to?
Regards,
Nika.
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FloatingFatMan said:
I actually had it before general release. Alas, my device just hangs until I take out the battery. Shame really, the root & cwm part worked great.
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By the way... I fixed my screen by getting a new Touch Screen Digitizer for Acer S300 Iconia Smart Device is difficult to take apart (first take off top cover where the power button is in, which is a flat plastic, then take the screw out, then take the entire top cover off, remove two screws, open battery department cover, remove battery & screws, and then you can use a soft plastic pull tool to take the screen out...)

[ROM] Custom Rom For ChaCha - GB

Hello everyone!
Finally, I am satisfied with my chacha. I was constantly shifting between stock custom rom and cm roms. In stock rom everything works but automatic backlight settings are just terrible (especially dim threshold and keyboard light settings) and status bar is bigger than in cm roms (32px vs 25px). Cm roms have all of this but there are other things that still need improvement (front cam, some stability issues etc.). Therefore I decided to create my own mod of stock rom. It is based on Europe RUU 1.3.3 android 2.3.3. I couldn’t find anywhere 2.3.5 Europe rom but to be honest I don’t see any difference between the two. There are two versions:
1. Full sense rom: Link
What is different: rooted, added busybox, support init.d, dta2sd included (you need to partition your sd to ext2 or ext3 after installation and enter dta2sd commands from terminal emulator – google for the commands if you don’t know them), changed the ugly calculator app, added file explorer, added latest play store, Flash player 11 is working. I haven’t removed any apps because in this version I wanted to leave that to the user according to his/her own preferences. Status bar is smaller (more space on the screen) and I themed it a little, removed charging icon (I know that it is charging because phone’s led is orange ). Automatic brightness is tweaked (added lower brightness level, lowered the max brightness of the f button, and added one level for the keyboard lights (sometimes, in stock roms, I couldn’t see my keyboard clearly and the damn lights just wouldn’t turn on so I had to do this tweak as well). And rom is fully deodexed.
2. Stripped rom (no sense): Link
What is different: rooted, added busybox, support init.d, dta2sd included (you need to partition your sd to ext2 or ext3 after installation and enter dta2sd commands from terminal emulator – google for the commands if you don’t know them), changed the ugly calculator app, added file explorer, added latest play store, removed sense, added widget locker, holo launcher, removed a lot of bloatware (at least, bloatware for me), f button is not assigned (I’ll leave that to the user, I use it to turn my screen off but didn’t changed it to this since several people reported issues). Same automatic backlight and status bar tweaks like in the sense rom and it is also deodexed.
3. Stripped rom (odexed): Link
What is different: Same as in stripped rom with the exeption of these: odexed (now 120mb free out of the box), status bar icons have an ICS look and color (wifi, signal, data, bluetooth etc.), notification toggles app added (fully functional and works great, just in the settings set it as an on-going notification and as old in order to be always on top; it has many different icons and styles and colors are changable as well, really nice app), fb button is set to turn screen off, dta2sd not included, different backlight values.
Automatic backlight and status bar tweak for odexed version: Link
Automatic backlight and status bar tweak (sense and stripped deodexed): Link
Flash Player 11: Link
Instructions:
1. Reboot into recovery; wipe data/factory reset; mounts and storage/format system; install from sd card; choose and install your rom; reboot your phone; finish your first boot setup.
2. Reboot into recovery; install from sd card; choose and install backlight.zip; reboot your phone.
3. Install flash player apk; reboot phone.
That’s it. Hope that someone will like it.
Sorry for the poor screenshots.
Regards
P.S. I am not going to support these mods. Everyone is invited to use them and do with them whatever you want. So please don’t ask me does it support this, does it support that, can you do this, can you do that. For me, it is perfect and I don’t need to do or change anything. Everything is working for me. I just wanted to share it with you. I hope that you can understand this.
Edit: I used this guide (thanks kylon) to improve wifi signal range and it worked for me, so I am going to share these settings with you. Mke sure you do this with your WiFi off. Here is what you have to do:
1. Copy your calibration file (found in proc in the root of your phone) to the sd card (it is best to do all steps with root explorer) and download from the attachments framework.jar (here is a link for an odexed version - extract jar and odex files) and symlinkv2.zip.
2. Move the calibration file to system/etc and set permissions as they are set in the screenshot.
3. Reboot into recovery and install symlinkv2.zip.
4. Open calibration file in system/etc (again, best with root explorer) and change this line: rssi_offset=0 into this: rssi_offset=-30
Delete created bak file if you are using root explorer.
5. Copy downloaded framework.jar (I already modified it according to the offset - 30, and if you are using odexed version copy both jar and odex files) to system/framework and set permissions according to the screenshot. Reboot your phone.
6. Done.
This trick did wonders for me and my wifi, hope it will help you as well. If it doesn't, try different values both in calibration file and framework.jar according to the original thread.
Cheers.
Looks noice
Is it faster/smoother than the stock rom? I would go back to the stock rom if it wasn't so hard to configure and it wasn't so damn sluggish compared to CM7/CM9.
ethancottier said:
Looks noice
Is it faster/smoother than the stock rom? I would go back to the stock rom if it wasn't so hard to configure and it wasn't so damn sluggish compared to CM7/CM9.
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Every rom that I use is fast enough for me. Even the unmodified stock. I just wanted to get rid of some apps that are obsolete for me, and I needed to improve backlight settings because when it is night the original settings don't dim the lights enough which really hurts my eyes and I hate that because I have to manually dim. In this rom I don't have that issue. Lights dim automatically.
Although, I found out today that there is an issue with the dta2sd, or maybe the kernel itself. DTa2sd moves my apps and dalvik to sd-ext, clockworkmod creates a backup of sd-ext in a backup folder, and when I restore it my rom just will not mount my sd-ext on boot after that, thus I need to do a fresh install. I would appreciate if someone has an idea why this happened? It is not an issue for me, since I am going to use this rom for a while, but I would like to fix it for the others. When I don't use dta2sd there are no issues. I looked in init.rc in ramdisk, but couldn't find anything unusual. This happened to me with Void rom as well, so I really don't know where to start regarding this.
Regards
Edit: I have been using recovery for a different phone. I just realized this and now, with the proper recovery, everything is restoring fine.
didije said:
Every rom that I use is fast enough for me. Even the unmodified stock. I just wanted to get rid of some apps that are obsolete for me, and I needed to improve backlight settings because when it is night the original settings don't dim the lights enough which really hurts my eyes and I hate that because I have to manually dim. In this rom I don't have that issue. Lights dim automatically.
Although, I found out today that there is an issue with the dta2sd, or maybe the kernel itself. DTa2sd moves my apps and dalvik to sd-ext, clockworkmod creates a backup of sd-ext in a backup folder, and when I restore it my rom just will not mount my sd-ext on boot after that, thus I need to do a fresh install. I would appreciate if someone has an idea why this happened? It is not an issue for me, since I am going to use this rom for a while, but I would like to fix it for the others. When I don't use dta2sd there are no issues. I looked in init.rc in ramdisk, but couldn't find anything unusual. This happened to me with Void rom as well, so I really don't know where to start regarding this.
Regards
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I don't know about data2SD, but I use link2SD, and that works perfectly but with the stock rom, you have to format the sd-ext partition in ext2 rather than ext4, and you can't do it with clockworkmod either, cos it doesn't format it properly :/ you have to use a tool like gparted (if you're a linux user) or some windows/mac equivalent to format it properly
Wow that does look pretty nice.thanks man.
ethancottier said:
I don't know about data2SD, but I use link2SD, and that works perfectly but with the stock rom, you have to format the sd-ext partition in ext2 rather than ext4, and you can't do it with clockworkmod either, cos it doesn't format it properly :/ you have to use a tool like gparted (if you're a linux user) or some windows/mac equivalent to format it properly
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Link2sd works well. Just tested it. Thanks! I don't have the time to look deeper into the issue with dta2sd..
john9 said:
Wow that does look pretty nice.thanks man.
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Thank you. In a couple of weeks I will tweak the backlight settings little more, and maybe build a similar 2.3.5 rom (if I find a RUU).
Cheers
Stripped with full stock Facebook Button Functionallity
Great work. This is a solid setup. Thanks for the hard work.
I appreciate that you left the F-Button unassigned for the end user, but is there a way to get back to stock functionallity using your Stripped Rom?
Thank you.
maxwellsk said:
Great work. This is a solid setup. Thanks for the hard work.
I appreciate that you left the F-Button unassigned for the end user, but is there a way to get back to stock functionallity using your Stripped Rom?
Thank you.
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Unzip Stripped Rom, add attached apks to system/app and attached chacha-keypad.kl (unzip the keypad file) to system/usr/keylayout. Zip it and flash it. Let me know if it works.
Cheers.
didije said:
Unzip Stripped Rom, add attached apks to system/app and attached chacha-keypad.kl (unzip the keypad file) to system/user/keylayout. Zip it and flash it. Let me know if it works.
Cheers.
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Thank you so much for the exceptionally quick response. Unfortunately I ran into an error. Let me walk you through what I did.
1. Dowloaded Sripped Rom, and all the files in the previous post.
2. I unzipped the Rom on my desktop
3. I inserted each of the files in their respective folders
4. Zipped the Rom back up
5. Transferred to SD
6. Booted to Recovery mode and tried to flash.
Here is what I got ....
CWM-based Recovery v5.0.2.7
-- Installing: /sdcard/Stripped-Chacha_1-3-3.zip
Finding update package...
Opening update package...
Installing update ...
Installation aborted.
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Thank you so much for the exceptionally quick response. Unfortunately I ran into an error. Let me walk you through what I did.
1. Dowloaded Sripped Rom, and all the files in the previous post.
2. I unzipped the Rom on my desktop
3. I inserted each of the files in their respective folders
4. Zipped the Rom back up
5. Transferred to SD
6. Booted to Recovery mode and tried to flash.
Here is what I got ....
CWM-based Recovery v5.0.2.7
-- Installing: /sdcard/Stripped-Chacha_1-3-3.zip
Finding update package...
Opening update package...
Installing update ...
Installation aborted.
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That is weird. I just tested it, and it worked for me. Maybe you zipped it with high compression or sth. Try with normal compression. If that doesn't work, I will upload zip for you later today. I use recovery 5.0.2.8, but I don't think that it matters.
Edit: Here is the link - Link
Flash Player Stopping
Stripped down ROM is great - now have more room for downloading apps.
One problem I've come across on this ChaCha is that Flash Player stops working (returns to home screen) after around 2 seconds of playing anything.
Anyone else had a similar problem?
didije said:
That is weird. I just tested it, and it worked for me. Maybe you zipped it with high compression or sth. Try with normal compression. If that doesn't work, I will upload zip for you later today. I use recovery 5.0.2.8, but I don't think that it matters.
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That got it! I'm sooooo happy!!! Thanks!! It is perfect!!
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That got it! I'm sooooo happy!!! Thanks!! It is perfect!!
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That's great. Glad I could help.
Regards
scgellion said:
Stripped down ROM is great - now have more room for downloading apps.
One problem I've come across on this ChaCha is that Flash Player stops working (returns to home screen) after around 2 seconds of playing anything.
Anyone else had a similar problem?
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As you can see from the screenshot below I don't have that issue. Try different flash player for armv6 devices. There are few, just google it.
dta2sd
Little suggestion. If you are planning to use this rom for a longer time, after your setup, copy your data from your sd card to your computer, go into clockworkmod recovery, in advanced options partition your sd card (I set sd-ext to 256, don't need more) and reboot. After that download terminal emulator from play store. In terminal type this:
su (then press enter and allow superuser permissions)
a2sd reinstall (enter and wait for your phone to reboot. It will take some time)
After it is booted enter this:
su (enter)
a2sd cachesd (press enter and wait for your phone to reboot. It will take some time).
The end result you can see in the attached screenshot. After installing all my apps I still have over 120mb free.
Of course, after everything is done copy your data back to sd card.
Regards
Added wifi tweak to the first post. It works for me, hopefully it will work for you as well.
Regards
languages included in europe rom
What languages are included in this ROM?
Thx!
Thanks for this rom, great daily use
Great Rom, Thank you!
This is the best ChaCha rom I have used so far. Everything works great super fast flash even works!
YouTube can play 240p with no lag, any higher and it will.
BBC iplayer crashes but I have yet to find a rom that bbc iplayer will work on when it comes to the ChaCha.
Perfect rom but can u create a RTL fix for arabic support ?
thanks.

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