I'm releasing and will be maintaining two roms.
Currently this rom should work with any of the custom kernels that are updated, eventually I will release my own kernel but I will not be messing with that until we get froyo. This has only been tested with the DI07 Kernel. You should have some variant based off the most recent update or this may not work.
Instructions
1. Back up your current setup
2. Download and place in the root of your sd card
3. Reboot to clockwork recovery
3a. Wipe Cache (Data / Factory reset should not be necessary but if you have issues go back and wipe both).
4. Flash zip
5. Reboot (Sleek download continue below, Base users are finished. Don't forget to set location preferences in settings > location.
Below steps only for Sleek users
6. Wait for reboot to finish, media search etc..
7. Log into google accounts let it sync
8. Open titanium backup > go to problems > click yes to install busy box
9. Enjoy. Customize as you like. In addition I open titanium and remove: SystemUpdates, all the tts items, voicedialer, voicesearch, setupwizard, task manager, twlauncher and adw launcher.
9a. I then Install startup manager (free on market) and stop all the random **** that isn't necessary from starting up. Namely: any user installed apps, alarm clock, calendar, calendarstorage, download manager, maps, myuploads, com.samsung.phone.info, settings, calendar voice dialer, wimaxrc, voicemail, titanium. Doing all this results in a lot of free memory on reboot!
234mb free ram on boot w/ above changes
A data wipe should not be necessary. If you encounter problems then you will need to full wipe and then reinstall the zip.
ROM Options
1. Base rom, including full touchwiz with all the goodies that come with that. Stock, deodexed and optimized.
2. Sleek and smooth, which is my actual daily rom since I hate Touchwiz, social networking junk and sprint crapware. I've added launcher pro, adw, fancywidget (htc clock w weather) and titanium backup.
Both roms are deodexed and optimized.
Current Bugs
WIFI / Bluetooth - Will cause radio to loop do not use until a fix is tracked down (I think i know what the issue is)
NO OTHER ISSUES
Future Updates
First priority is to get WIFI / Bluetooth fixed (I think I know the issue)
I will be changing the lock screen in a future update and offer different .zips and options for those of you in addition to some themes and graphical changes
I will be working on modifying and including the aosp calendar at some point. There is a bug with it currently and its not displaying properly on anything other than agenda mode so its not included right now.
I will ultimately offer a new kernel, for now all the kernels based off of DI07 should work fine. Including OC. In the interim I will package some of the more popular kernels with this rom for you to choose from but right now whatever kernel you were using will stay after flashing.
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Download Link
Base - includes all Touchwiz elements just hotspot removed.
Link down until wifi fixed
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Sleek - Removes touchwiz, includes ADW and Launcher Pro, removes social networking crap, removes junk apks, adds fancywidget (HTC clock w/weather)
Link down until wifi fix uploaded
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If you need to test any fixes let me know I am going to flash this right now and I'll report back.
[email protected] said:
If you need to test any fixes let me know I am going to flash this right now and I'll report back.
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Let me know if you have issues, the upload went pretty fast and that worries me a little
Got it loaded up. Is this just the andromeda v.1 rom? Thats what it says under firmware version. And when u say full touchwiz do u mean like other Galaxy S phones or just the same crap we already have?
koolhand79 said:
Got it loaded up. Is this just the andromeda v.1 rom? Thats what it says under firmware version. And when u say full touchwiz do u mean like other Galaxy S phones or just the same crap we already have?
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Your kernel will stay with whatever you were using prior to flashing.
Its the epic's version of touchwiz. I doubt anyone is going to bother trying to port 3.0 when samsung is going to release it in a few weeks. So many people ask for the apks and such in a flashable zip so thats what base will provide except they have been dodexed and optimized.
Sleek has other changes and things removed. Base is just base.
Aridon said:
Your kernel will stay with whatever you were using prior to flashing.
Its the epic's version of touchwiz. I doubt anyone is going to bother trying to port 3.0 when samsung is going to release it in a few weeks. Just everything is optimized and deodexed in the base rom. Sleek has other changes and things removed.
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Ok. Sounds good. Everything seems to be working well so far. it seems a bit snappier, i dunno, could just be me
Can I request not to use Megaupload? or any sites that have a 45 second waiting period?
I'll be uploading the wifi fix over the next hour or two depending on how the evil internet monster is on my upload. so if you want to wait that might not be a bad idea and save on the two downloads.
any updates on how this is performing? curious bc i was thinking about giving it a shot. I'm now flash happy.....just 3 or 4 days ago I went from no roms to at least having a couple to choose from
Aridon said:
I'll be uploading the wifi fix over the next hour or two depending on how the evil internet monster is on my upload. so if you want to wait that might not be a bad idea and save on the two downloads.
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Awesome so you figured out the wifi and bluetooth?
Hi,
I wanted to know if there are reasons of why we should try IceCreamSandwich or JellyBean roms for daily usage that still have bugs, other than keep with Gingerbread, and in my case, Frankenstein´s rom.
What I really want to know are if ICS and JB have some benefits, or we just want to use them because they are new.
I only have my SL phone, and that´s the reason I don´t want to start flashing lots of roms again... just want one that works well and in which battery lasts reasonable time.
My normal daily use is:
· 1 hour speak
· mostly 2g or wifi connection. Almost no navigation.
· lot of whatsapp
· 30 min average of bluetooth
· sometimes some gps
With this use, my battery lasts aproximately 2 days.
I don´t play games, I don´t watch movies... I just use it as a regular mobile + whatsapp, gps, adidas micoach, jefit, and small apps.
I think it would be good to receive some advice of those who tried different roms.
Thanks for your time, and hope this thread is useful to solve other questions also.
The reason is that people get bored of same old UI.
So we try ICS and JB.
They do support UI flexibility.
Also performance of phone increases in games[That's not for you]
And They also support more number of apps than GB.
But be sure that you won't get same battery backup though.
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some apps dont work on GB (google chrome, google now, etc..), thats why i switched to JB...
battery wise, mine last a day (using an internet simcard and switched to 2g), used only for updates, whatsapp and viber...
if you were to switch to a custom rom, i would suggest you use jellybam...
But jelly bean and ICS have lower autonomie than GB
About 1 or 2 day
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Hi there.
I m currently using Frankenstein Mod (v 3.8) and i want to go for some JB or ICS mod which should be at least equal to Frankenstein in terms of Performance. Please .. and i want a fully functional Keyboard, To play 'Agent Dash', possibly error free GPS and full whatsapp.
Any good suggestion will be appreciated. And i have REMICS-JB in my mind!! what say
Darktitor said:
But jelly bean and ICS have lower autonomie than GB
About 1 or 2 day
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That's the risk to use JB or ICS, but if you use Jelly Bam the recommend version + Revolution Kernel = your phone live about 1,5 day or 2 day (I'm on Jelly Bam)
Of course, your phone still need some setting in the performance menu, suggested governor: SmartassV.2 with min speed 300 and max speed 1000 or 1200. That should give you no lag but battery saving phone. If you think your phone taking too much power, use CPU Spy, you can found it on Play Store
Sent from my Galaxy SL powered by Jelly Bam
BachuArg said:
Hi,
My normal daily use is:
· 1 hour speak
· mostly 2g or wifi connection. Almost no navigation.
· lot of whatsapp
· 30 min average of bluetooth
· sometimes some gps
With this use, my battery lasts aproximately 2 days.
I don´t play games, I don´t watch movies... I just use it as a regular mobile + whatsapp, gps, adidas micoach, jefit, and small apps.
I think it would be good to receive some advice of those who tried different roms.
Thanks for your time, and hope this thread is useful to solve other questions also.
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According to this, there's no reason to go for ICS or JB (Plus, these are NOT totally stable/reliable/functional).
Stick to good GB kernel/roms.
jaweinre said:
According to this, there's no reason to go for ICS or JB (Plus, these are NOT totally stable/reliable/functional).
Stick to good GB kernel/roms.
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Well..
I tried to install CM10 Alpha 4 with no success. I don´t know if it is some trouble with my modem (I´m from Argentina), or what, but I tried 4 times to install it and couldn´t make it work fine.
Now I´m on CM9 Alpha 14, with Alpha´s 11 Kernel.
I like it, but I find it a little bit laggy.
Is this just a characteristic from ICS in our phone?
Any other Kernel to recommend?
Now that I´ve tried ICS and JB, I can say that a big difference I find is the way some shortcuts work.
For example, when you pull down the notifications menu, you can access the setting from there, and in JB, you can go to alarms or calendar.
Also I like the new recent apps.
What has to do with the design, I find ICS and JB really pretty. Spaces between things in menus, and other stuff look very well.
BachuArg said:
Hi,
I wanted to know if there are reasons of why we should try IceCreamSandwich or JellyBean roms for daily usage that still have bugs, other than keep with Gingerbread, and in my case, Frankenstein´s rom.
What I really want to know are if ICS and JB have some benefits, or we just want to use them because they are new.
I only have my SL phone, and that´s the reason I don´t want to start flashing lots of roms again... just want one that works well and in which battery lasts reasonable time.
My normal daily use is:
· 1 hour speak
· mostly 2g or wifi connection. Almost no navigation.
· lot of whatsapp
· 30 min average of bluetooth
· sometimes some gps
With this use, my battery lasts aproximately 2 days.
I don´t play games, I don´t watch movies... I just use it as a regular mobile + whatsapp, gps, adidas micoach, jefit, and small apps.
I think it would be good to receive some advice of those who tried different roms.
Thanks for your time, and hope this thread is useful to solve other questions also.
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Defntly for daily usage i strongly recommend GB over ics/jb.. The main issue with later 2 os is battery. I m nt getting even half day with moderate usage..(at present i m using REMICS 1.7) bt still m using it bcs it is more user friendly, support more apps finally, atleast to my frnds i can say "i m running more advanced os than u"
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Some user have good battery life with jelly bean (2 days) !!!
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BachuArg said:
Well..
I tried to install CM10 Alpha 4 with no success. I don´t know if it is some trouble with my modem (I´m from Argentina), or what, but I tried 4 times to install it and couldn´t make it work fine.
Now I´m on CM9 Alpha 14, with Alpha´s 11 Kernel.
I like it, but I find it a little bit laggy.
Is this just a characteristic from ICS in our phone?
Any other Kernel to recommend?
Now that I´ve tried ICS and JB, I can say that a big difference I find is the way some shortcuts work.
For example, when you pull down the notifications menu, you can access the setting from there, and in JB, you can go to alarms or calendar.
Also I like the new recent apps.
What has to do with the design, I find ICS and JB really pretty. Spaces between things in menus, and other stuff look very well.
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He he, sorry about the useless thanks, the xda app and my phone make a combination of phantom touch and my stupidness accidentally make a stupid thanks on the post when I was checking threads and I don't know how to un-thanks on the xda app.
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For me, I use Jb instead of Gb because:
-Video call with Gtalk. No Gtalk vid call on Gb.
-Beautiful UI. The spaces, the consistency of usage of colours, the fresh new look of android.
-Built in Data Monitor. I can track my data usage and warning if almost reach limit.
-Expandable volume control(we can set media volume, ring volume and alarm volume just by pressing the button)
-Great keyboard.
-more apps supported.(apex launcher, some games, Chrome, stuff)
-settings button accessible in notification
-Swipeable notification (I like this because i can keep my text message to be read later while deleting other notification)
-Quick reply text messages using button on notification area without opening the messaging app.
-Google Now cards. It shows stuff without having to search for it.
-Very organized system settings.
-Different Widget displayed.(eg. Google+ widget in GB is a text bar to post new statuses. In JB, it shows people from our circle's posts.)
-Fast stock browser. (Updated html support)
-Can save web page for offline reading.
-can place shortcuts on lockscreen.
-apps on the market had given guidelines on the app layout.(not making apps that looks like iPhones and Windows phone apps)
-No pre-installed bloatwares.
-Can show to s2 users that I already have JB while they still ICS
Benefits of Gb over Jb(at this time):
-Tethering (tethering in cm10 is not yet possible)
-Have FM Radio in stock rom. Good to hear free music when bored.
-Have UMTS Video Call in stock rom. Can Video call using carrier charges(its the same price as voice call in my country. Very good to have)
-Can create folders INSIDE the app drawer.(value packs only)
-Good battery usage.
I would prefer JB more because I could use my phone more effectively. About the lag, I used the performance tweak and the Project Butter enchanter mods by Top Droid and the lag is gone!
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amifiq which rom are you using & how good is the battery backup?
Im using cm10a3. Usually it last like a day if i use it like sms, whatsapp, calls. But if you want good battry life, use gb. Cm10 isnt stable yet so have not as good battery as stock.
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As rightly pointed out by amifiq in earlier post
My views will be similar to what he said.
But to be frank Battery lasts only for a day at the most.
leaving it I would rather prefer the JB instead of GB.
Above all it is the firmware created by our devs.
That is more important to go for JB.
My SL is currently at -->
Jelly Bam v.4.0
SIRI KERNEL rc2
Performance Tweaks - Version 1.4.1
issues found as below ,
1.whatsapp
-heavy lag at times while switching from other apps (5sec delay)
-hang / or black screen when using camera , have to remove battery and reboot
- force close
2. MX video player
- phone reboot after watching 25 mins
3. copying files in debugging mode connected to pc
- become slower in day 2 and 3
attached is the catlog when i experience reboot while on MX player
sorry i have to put it here because my post is still less than 10
Hi. Im tinking to try my first custom rom, i switched to stock roms few times, did a lot of mods and aplied lots of themes, but not sure how to flash jelly bam. Im confused,have i to do a factory reset after flash cm10 and then jelly bam??. Please can someone post the right procedure, step by step for flash jelly bam. I read lots of ways to do and im confused. Thanks in advance.
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Guys whom have updated, is it any better?
Any key differences
after updating to OREO everything works fine for me.
nothing is missed.
big differences:
* newer security patch level and better battery performance
* (and if it should work: ) project treble
BTW:
dirty over vs. new installation = in most cases it seems to make no differences (my experience)
:good:
Better multitasking, smoother transitions, menus are changed a little bit but overall it looks almost the same as emui 7. There are a lot of under the hood improvements such as notification settings better memory management and battery life.
Visually it's different (because new Android version).
What I found is that the lockscreen notifications for audio and video players have a visual bug - the controls are slightly off to the right so the 'next' button goes over the thumbnail and is hard to see.
Definitely better battery life. Don't really care for the new System settings layout but who cares, you only use it rarely? Never use stock launchers, so again who cares? Other than that it is great.
Better battery life for me ! All is working great.
Thanks gents
Still on the beta 321 version (567 US version)...STILL WAITING
But, the 321 version for me is stable
Oreo has all better things compared to Nougat except custom rom and magisk as well as xposed. It has only root with SuperSU, not enough for me. Will come back to Oreo later if Xposed is compatible
lemonade747 said:
Oreo has all better things compared to Nougat except custom rom and magisk as well as xposed. It has only root with SuperSU, not enough for me. Will come back to Oreo later if Xposed is compatible
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What are you using xposed for may I ask.
I used to run magisk to get YouTube ad free and ad blocker but there are ways around that now
sutty86 said:
What are you using xposed for may I ask.
I used to run magisk to get YouTube ad free and ad blocker but there are ways around that now
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I use xposed for many reasons as well as functions cuz no phone is perfect. And with xposed I can transform my phone to its hidden perfect mode lol It contains wide range of useful modules so it always make you feel interested in exploring and enjoying.
I am experiencing a few little issues that I am hoping will be addressed soon, though to be fair I think the problem is because of EMUI 8. Main problem is some of my widgets wont update. Oreo has some little features like app shortcuts which are cool but I wouldnt rush to upgrade.
Hi peeps. I'm currently running my U11 on Rooted 7.1 Nougat Stock ROM, which I love to pieces, it's very smooth, fast & stable.
I would like to know what peoples experiences are with Oreo, since it's a big job to upgrade once you've rooted. Are there any real advantages to updating? Is it worth the hassle?
Give me the skinny
cheers :good:
kin'cheezus said:
Hi peeps. I'm currently running my U11 on Rooted 7.1 Nougat Stock ROM, which I love to pieces, it's very smooth, fast & stable.
I would like to know what peoples experiences are with Oreo, since it's a big job to upgrade once you've rooted. Are there any real advantages to updating? Is it worth the hassle?
Give me the skinny
cheers :good:
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I was glad to get it mainly for two reasons - A it allows our company client certificates to be imported that were too advanced or something for Nougat (so now I can browse our internal systems from phone) and B there is LDAC support (useful if you have high-end Sony BT headphones) and other Bluetooth hi-res audio codecs on top of regular aptX. I also find the UI neater, and like new option for do not disturb mode (notifications off until next planned silent time ends) but that alone wouldn't make me flash. Let's see what others have to say
Oreo was the start of all my problems... It's a tough situation though because Oreo brings with it the latest Android security patches...
But have had endless network, SMS and Wifi issues ever since.
Good luck!
Icons are UGGLLLYYY! as hell! And yes i know themes ... but cant fix all problems - you need to change launcher =(
deafmetal1 said:
Oreo was the start of all my problems... It's a tough situation though because Oreo brings with it the latest Android security patches...
But have had endless network, SMS and Wifi issues ever since.
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I suspect upgrade process is at fault, which wouldn't occur when re-flashing the rooted phone and restoring or re-installing your apps there. Just my guess though. Personally I didn't experience any such problems after OTA to Oreo.
nomaj said:
Icons are UGGLLLYYY! as hell! And yes i know themes ... but cant fix all problems - you need to change launcher =(
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Well, setting HTC Classical icons in Personalize - Edit current theme - Icons fixes most except for Google ones. I didn't really like how Oreo (or HTC?) rounded all the icons, with Google ones it works IMO.