Hi everyone - first post here EVER so be gentle. First of all major props to the insane dev action attacking these phones, esp. the Verizon bootloader. Awesome to watch, can't wait for the results.
Question: I'm getting the vzw SGS3, and while I'd like to eventually flash a CM10/JB ROM, in the meantime I'm interested in clearing out as much of the touchwiz as possible without a full ROM. I'm looking at Apex Launcher and that seems like it can change a bunch of the icons, and I've read the thread about using ICS apps.
1. Will Apex Launcher change icons (camera, phone) to stock ICS icons? is there any other way to do it?
2. Does the VZW root solution posted now allow me to remove touchwiz apps and install the ICS apps I want (messages, calendar, email, calculator)? I'd plan on using Titanium backup
thanks! keep up the amazing work
one other question I thought of -
Is touchwiz done in Roboto font? If not, is there any way to get it back in? I really like the stock look.
spiffae said:
Hi everyone - first post here EVER so be gentle. First of all major props to the insane dev action attacking these phones, esp. the Verizon bootloader. Awesome to watch, can't wait for the results.
Question: I'm getting the vzw SGS3, and while I'd like to eventually flash a CM10/JB ROM, in the meantime I'm interested in clearing out as much of the touchwiz as possible without a full ROM. I'm looking at Apex Launcher and that seems like it can change a bunch of the icons, and I've read the thread about using ICS apps.
1. Will Apex Launcher change icons (camera, phone) to stock ICS icons? is there any other way to do it?
2. Does the VZW root solution posted now allow me to remove touchwiz apps and install the ICS apps I want (messages, calendar, email, calculator)? I'd plan on using Titanium backup
thanks! keep up the amazing work
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1. yes the apex launcher gives u ics icons
2. when rooted use titanium backup itself to remove all the apps u dnt want
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spiffae said:
one other question I thought of -
Is touchwiz done in Roboto font? If not, is there any way to get it back in? I really like the stock look.
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i guess its not roboto
and have you flashed any other font ?
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i guess its not roboto
and have you flashed any other font ?
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I don't have the phone yet, was just wondering - so samsung has replaced roboto? can anyone confirm this?
Hey guys. I saw something on this a while back but can't seem to find it. Does anyone have a working touchwiz launcher for our one xl on jellybean. I saw one that was for the one x but I think it was for the international version and was only for ICS.
I don't know if I def. Want to swift h over tonight full time but ice been using it on my tab and wanted to see how it would be on my phone.
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You may want to check here. Inflated titan posted a flashable zip. I don't know where he got it but you can ask him.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=39253008
Got it from another member lol... Its the only one we could find that doesn't force close... If you happen to be on aosp, install this theme along with the touchwiz launcher to get a better effect. https://www.dropbox.com/s/amiz1iufb90vae5/CM10.1 CM9 TouchWiz 5.0 theme v3.4.5 apkarchive.com.rar Once you install and choose the theme, REBOOT!!! it'll change your icons upon rebooting... I also have a zip with all the s-apps and galaxy ui sounds.. But its 170mb and I don't feel like uploading. This is mine with launcher+theme only
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Got it from another member lol... Its the only one we could find that doesn't force close... If you happen to be on aosp, install this theme along with the touchwiz launcher to get a better effect. https://www.dropbox.com/s/amiz1iufb90vae5/CM10.1 CM9 TouchWiz 5.0 theme v3.4.5 apkarchive.com.rar Once you install and choose the theme, REBOOT!!! it'll change your icons upon rebooting... I also have a zip with all the s-apps and galaxy ui sounds.. But its 170mb and I don't feel like uploading. This is mine with launcher+theme only
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Haha thanks a bunch man! I have so many zips and themes saved. I change way too much lol
TESTERS NEEDED! Universal Theme
talking about this?
For the first flashable stock ROM for this device CLICK HERE
UPDATED
This is the first working flashable ROM for this phone that I am aware of.
Thanks to @shifattk and @FitAmp for the overclock
Thanks to @Restl3ss, who is working on a rooted and overclocked, otherwise bone stock ROM
^^^Used boot.img from the above mentioned
Based off stock 4.0.4.
Rooted
BusyBox
Overclocked to 1000mhz
Root Browser
New Launcher
Apollo Music
Default Ringtone: Crank
Bloat Removed
Theme Changes
Zipaligned
Many more changes to come!
Stable
Working and tested.
Flashing instructions:
1. Use CWM 6.0.3.1 (get it here, flash with Odin)
2. WIPE DATA/CACHE
3. Disable signature verification (signed version to come)
4. Flash
5. Wipe Dalvik.
6. Reboot
7. After initial setup, hit menu, go into preferences, scroll down and hit restart launcher. The default preferences have been modded for great performance, but don't auto load. After launcher restart, default preferences stay permanent, you only have to do it after first boot. Or change them to whatever you see fit!
Hit thanks if you enjoy!
Download:http://d-h.st/8Ee
As always, I am not responsible for you bricking your phone. Odin is not a toy, CWM Recovery is not a toy. Installing custom ROMS is relatively easy, but if you are unsure what you are doing, do some research on XDA or Google BEFORE you start messing around. This ROM is working and running on my S730M and I have had no problems so far.
OMG!
I've been waiting so long for somebody to make a custom rom for this phone! This is the first custom rom for this phone at last! I shall try it out and get back to you my good sir.
Sweet! Thanks :laugh::good:
BopIt said:
I've been waiting so long for somebody to make a custom rom for this phone! This is the first custom rom for this phone at last! I shall try it out and get back to you my good sir.
Sweet! Thanks :laugh::good:
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Thanks! It was plagued with issues to start, just trying to get a flashable zip of the stock ROM together was a nightmare, and since there wasn't one any where on the internet to use as a base, well... had no choice but to make one. I'm going to release a non over clocked version as well. This one is still close to stock with a few mods and tweaks, so enjoy and I'll keep working away at bringing a true custom to this phone
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Good Job!
I flashed it on my Discover today and it worked flawlessly.
By the way, I didn't make the OC script. It was FitAmp, the credits should go to him.
What launcher did you use? and good job on making a working rom for it, I had been messing around with trying to cook one in the kitchen app for the SS730G. I may give that one a shot with flashing this one, the stock rom on it is having issues anyways as when I try to shut it down it reboots 9 times out of 10.
atmu5fear said:
This is the first working flashable ROM for this phone that I am aware of.
Thanks to @shifattk and @FitAmp for the overclock
Thanks to @Restl3ss, who is working on a rooted and overclocked, otherwise bone stock ROM
^^^Used boot.img from the above mentioned
Based off stock 4.0.4.
Rooted
BusyBox
Overclocked to 1000mhz
New Launcher
Apollo Music
Flappy Bird (yes the original)
Default Ringtone: Crank
Bloat Removed
Coming soon:
Deodexed
Zipaligned
Added system apps for root functions and enhanced experience (Root file explorer, Greenify, upgraded keyboard, terminal emulator, lite browser)
Many more changes to come!
Stable
Working and tested.
Flashing instructions:
1. Use CWM 6.0.3.1 (get it here, flash with Odin)
2. WIPE DATA/CACHE
3. Disable signature verification (signed version to come)
4. Flash
5. Wipe Dalvik.
6. Reboot and enjoy
Hit thanks if you enjoy!
Download: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/170099363/S730M_atmu5fear.zip
As always, I am not responsible for you bricking your phone. Odin is not a toy, CWM Recovery is not a toy. Installing custom ROMS is relatively easy, but if you are unsure what you are doing, do some research on XDA or Google BEFORE you start messing around. This ROM is working and running on my S730M and I have had no problems so far.
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doctor_evil said:
What launcher did you use? and good job on making a working rom for it, I had been messing around with trying to cook one in the kitchen app for the SS730G. I may give that one a shot with flashing this one, the stock rom on it is having issues anyways as when I try to shut it down it reboots 9 times out of 10.
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Launcher pro, the only launcher I will use since I bought my first droid, runs clean and light. There's always the option to change to whatever launcher you like, for me, on this phone, runs the smoothest and that's what I'm going for here. Many changes still to come!
Kitchen is a great tool for learning AS LONG as you take a look at every change you implement with kitchen, in the update or updater script itself. The one thing about it is, that if you fully rely on kitchen, even if it does work, you won't learn a thing. All of the changes kitchen makes, can be made in terminal and text editor (Linux) to give you some hands on experience
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atmu5fear said:
Launcher pro, the only launcher I will use since I bought my first droid, runs clean and light. There's always the option to change to whatever launcher you like, for me, on this phone, runs the smoothest and that's what I'm going for here. Many changes still to come!
Kitchen is a great tool for learning AS LONG as you take a look at every change you implement with kitchen, in the update or updater script itself. The one thing about it is, that if you fully rely on kitchen, even if it does work, you won't learn a thing. All of the changes kitchen makes, can be made in terminal and text editor (Linux) to give you some hands on experience
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I'm partial to the Nova Launcher myself, but I know what you mean. While the stock launcher is better than the standard Samsung Touchwiz crap, it definitely could use a speed increase on this phone.
I keep hoping and dreaming that someone will be able to port KitKat to this phone. I just flashed the current SlimKat rom on my Nexus S and I'm impressed with how fast the Google Now launcher performs on it. Maybe with this one overclocked to 1GHz and it having 512 megs of ram which I think is a little more than the Nexus S had it would make a different.
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I'm partial to the Nova Launcher myself, but I know what you mean. While the stock launcher is better than the standard Samsung Touchwiz crap, it definitely could use a speed increase on this phone.
I keep hoping and dreaming that someone will be able to port KitKat to this phone. I just flashed the current SlimKat rom on my Nexus S and I'm impressed with how fast the Google Now launcher performs on it. Maybe with this one overclocked to 1GHz and it having 512 megs of ram which I think is a little more than the Nexus S had it would make a different.
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Kit Kat was built to run on 512mb, from everything I've heard it utilizes memory way better than any other version yet. I'm going to look at porting ROMs to this device, but one project at a time . It should be possible though. Even if I can port a stock 4.4.2 and start customizing from there, I think this phone would benefit tremendously from it, more so then newer more powerful devices.
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atmu5fear said:
Kit Kat was built to run on 512mb, from everything I've heard it utilizes memory way better than any other version yet. I'm going to look at porting ROMs to this device, but one project at a time . It should be possible though. Even if I can port a stock 4.4.2 and start customizing from there, I think this phone would benefit tremendously from it, more so then newer more powerful devices.
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I flashed my 730G with this rom, so far it looks good. I may switch the launcher to a different one but other than this it looks and appears to run fine. I can't test the radio at the moment as my net10 sim is cut down to nano size and I can't find my regular sim to nano sim adapter. I know I have one but finding it will be the fun part.
Double check the Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, GPS etc, make sure they turn on and work. They should as they work fine on the 730m, but you never know. I haven't seen the build.prop for the G
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And check your root too. If root works than the rooting process is the same for both. Just open root browser and if it asks for superuser access you're golden. Plan to add terminal and cpu tuner in the next update.
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atmu5fear said:
Double check the Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, GPS etc, make sure they turn on and work. They should as they work fine on the 730m, but you never know. I haven't seen the build.prop for the G
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The wi-fi and GPS appear to work fine. I still haven't been able to find my nano to regular size sim adapter. I wound up replacing launcher pro with nova launcher, and I also installed Titanium backup which I used to integrate the google keyboard. After I switched over to it, I froze the samsung keyboard which was a pain in the ass to have to work with. You may want to look into switching the keyboard if you have a preference in a future release. I really like the google keyboard myself.
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The wi-fi and GPS appear to work fine. I still haven't been able to find my nano to regular size sim adapter. I wound up replacing launcher pro with nova launcher, and I also installed Titanium backup which I used to integrate the google keyboard. After I switched over to it, I froze the samsung keyboard which was a pain in the ass to have to work with. You may want to look into switching the keyboard if you have a preference in a future release. I really like the google keyboard myself.
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I've considered switching the default launcher to nova, or I should say I've tried to. I've had issues with everything I've tried, except launcher pro, and lightning launcher. Lighting launcher is actually extremely fast and lightweight, I think the app itself is less the a MB, but its far different than your standard, familiar style of launcher so I opted out. I've tried solo, which is nearly identical to nova, except there's no pro version, all "pro" features are entirely free. I've also tried KK launcher, again very similar to nova, but all three of them will not load after the initial setup screen. Just don't work well as system apps. Loading them into the data partition should solve this problem, but they install with a file size of 0 MB, and again, won't actually load. All of them work fine when installed from the market, or from an apk, just haven't had luck packaging them with the ROM. I'll look into the keyboard thing. I prefer Swype, but given it's a paid app, I can't really incorporate it, and I don't want to just include a 30 day trial app in the ROM. I'll keep plucking away at it tho. Thanks a ton for your input
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ok I just wiped it and went thru setup, it worked with no issues with the samsung keyboard and the nova launcher as system apps. maybe this will help for customizing the rom further? Also it might be a good idea to remove the updater app just to be safe. While I don't think that they would ever push out a rom update for the samsung S730M or S730G it might cause issues if someone who didn't know better used the updater app and downloaded a rom update. It may not be an issue, but I figured it was worth mentioning
I wanted to give an update. I was able to successfully use your rom as a base to make my own custom rom. I had to extract the updater script binary from yours to drop into the appropriate folder in my working folder. I'm going to do a little more fine tuning on what apps I want to include but I should have it ready to share soon.
Also, I finally found my adapter so I was able to read my Net10 sim in my S730G, other than it not having the correct APN which I had to manually enter It worked with no problems once I setup the APN, full signal and no issues with downloading anything once the APN was setup.
OK I've finished the 1.0 version of my rom. it can be found here
Thanks but
before I flash this I want to know if anyone knows where I can download the odin flashable stock firmware for this device. So glad that this is out though but this phone is only 4 months old for me still got 8 months for something to go horribly wrong with it
Thanks! Overall OK.
sixty_oz said:
before I flash this I want to know if anyone knows where I can download the odin flashable stock firmware for this device. So glad that this is out though but this phone is only 4 months old for me still got 8 months for something to go horribly wrong with it
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There is no Odin flashable ROM for this phone. I do have there stock flashable zips tho. Worst case scenario, you Odin flash recovery, then flash the stock zip via cwm. I've been working on CM 9, and have not been able to get it to work, but no matter how many times I've flashed it, I can always flash back to stock via recovery, haven't bricked yet
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following!
I'm new to flashing in general so I am just learning what the process entails, but I just put CM11 onto an N7 '13 and I am very impressed with what people are doing. I also have a sluggish Samsung Discover so I'm very interested in how this work proceeds!
Best of luck everyone and thank you Atmu5fear, hopefully I can share my experience soon as well.
wondering if anyone has or is able to create a deodexed stock rom?
are these even necessary for theming anymore?
its been a while since ive done anything but want to port my BuuF theme to the pixel
thanks
byte
The buuf theme was my favorite for years. I hope you have success porting it. Sorry for not adding anything to the thread but I really loved that theme.
thanks man...
it will happen one day....
also looking into porting it to substratum.....but ive been slacking for a year or so, so time to catch back up
I don't think this is even a thing in ROMs any more. Substratum just works now in 7.1.1. There is no need to install theme-able gapps or anything.
guess its time to learn something new...
maybe android sdk will finally work for me
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I don't think this is even a thing in ROMs any more. Substratum just works now in 7.1.1. There is no need to install theme-able gapps or anything.
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requires root no?
deodexed stock would still allow me theme a stock rom, without the need for root.
htc one m9 had a built in theme engine that wasnt half bad that and came with a web based designer....might just install that
I believe they are working on substratum for non-root, thought I read that somewhere, i could be wrong
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piperx said:
I believe they are working on substratum for non-root, thought I read that somewhere, i could be wrong
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intersting...thanks...i will look more into this
wish i woulda leanred theming correctly...i just pieced them together(image files and change the names to current images in the res folders) although ive pieced together several complete themes...they where always hackup...aside from my HTC theme since they had a online designer made everything so damn simple...MIUI i did a complete theme as well....but no sdk needed....I think MIUI is still my fav theme engine..simple to theme yet very powerful
never could get android sdk to work properly.....i have little patience lol
ill give sdk a go again...or maybe I can find a themer to help convert my buuf theme properly
thanks
byte