[Vibrant Android Development] dseldown:
Finnally Ordeal is OVER!!

Only reason I'm posting this info is for one thing, Thank EB for an awesome ROM

And the 2nd reason to to Shine some light on a few things I had to endure the hard-way, and hopefully save a few fans of SH some grief!

OK, after getting a 2nd phone as a replacement from TMO, due to a bricking using KIES, Any NOOBS here, DON'T EVER USE KIES TO GO TO FROYO!! IT WILL BRICK YOUR PHONE, and there are many others in this community who did the same thing, and Its notorious for doing that!!

IDK why, this replacement phone was so hard to work with, It fought me the whole way, the only noticeable difference between this one[current phone] and the one I bricked, which BTW never gave me ANY PROBLEMS what so ever while Modding is, the CPU, the old bricked one had the something 8 series chip and this one has the ARMv7 rev2 series, and would be the only logical reason why these exact same phones behaved so differently!!

Anyway I finally flash it all the way, to Beta 5.1 with the Talon kernel, with all the extra add-ons and so forth!! Believe it or not the performance was slower and more buggy than the SH 5.0 and had issues with GPS= NOT WORKING AT ALL, even though I tried 3 different GPS fix's none of them would work, And yes I did the HW Mod [B 4 I went to 5.1, and verified all was working [GPS wise] when I was at Froyo] part with the brass contacts, I honed some piece's of custom fitting copper pieces that fit snugly and perfectly into the tabs, Effectively enabling the GPS and increasing contact pressure with the 2 tabs to be on the safe side, decided while I had the moment to do the same with the other one as well for WIFI, which did increase sensitivity!

Anyway, brought everything back down to 5.0, With all the extras and goodies, including the rainbow eye splash loader, and the blinking eyes on the pull-down!! All I can say is, WOW, this 5.0 ROM is very stable,So far NO FC's, WIFI Calling works great, GPS works with lock, up to 11 birds within 20 sec's or less, with a proximity down to 12 ft, the speed and fluid-ness of the ROM, is smooth and fast, the theme is gorgeous, I am running set CPU and its clocked at 1.2Ghz, using the Bullet Kernel, Bullet Works for me much better than the Talon one, to each their own I guess, or depending on which vibrant they acquired, with the different chips perhaps?? IDK 4 sure!! There seems to be some variables here with HW that causes different problems, some peep's have none, like my 1st phone was, and others with the newer phones are temperamental!! :confused:

Anyway while I was waiting for this replacement phone I took the opportunity to order a 3500Ma battery ,came with the custom back to accommodate the extra thickness, and it snaps in place perfectly, and it has increased my charge cycle duration and extra day! But I found out the hard way, that, Unless you use a Samsung OEM battery, any aftermarket battery's will keep ODIN from working correctly [wouldn't detect the phone in DL mode] and CWM even coughed a few times, while I was flashing, I did some research and found out that, these phones, detect a signature embedded in the Samsung made battery's and the aftermarket ones are apparently not coded, and thus is why I had issues with upgrading SW, especially while using ODIN!!

As soon as I powered down and swapped battery's and used the OEM Samsung one, ODIN, CWM , everything else for that matter started to co-operate on the phone during Flashing!! Again the AM battery works great as a battery, But don't use aftermarket during any type of flashing. Go figure RIGHT!!!

So anyway, that's it!! I'm gonna chill for awhile on modding this phone as It is working and configured perfectly as I need and want it.

And again many, thanks to EB, Simone and all who were involved in this ROM's evolution. Great Job!! :D