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[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] danageis:
Any way to update the Messaging app?

I have used a SK4G since release and I love this ROM, but unfortunately it seems to use an outdated messaging app.

The problem is when you respond to a message with the quick reply popup, the messaging app doesn't recognize this as a response and the message notifcation/led will keep going until you re-read the message inside the messaging app itself...

This bug was fixed with the second SK4G OTA update, but is back in this rom :(

Is there any way you have found to fix this? i have a Nandroid backup of my phone fully update w/o custom ROM, is there anyway to fix it by taking the files off of that backup?
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] misfitpierce:
I finally got CWM on Sidekick4G and installed this rom and everything seems to be working just fine on friends Sidekick4G. Im used to Galaxy S Vibrant that I have and Nexus S and few HTCs but Sidekick was one that gave me the most headaches altho still simple enough. The rom looks great so I say keep up the great work... Referring to Smooth Maximus rom... Looks great on friend SK4G.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] :
http://www.mediafire.com/?fv3zbq5b4ho6e1t ROM IN CASE ANY CAN'T HAVE IT
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] temeyers:
multiupload is down can we get a new link
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] :
If u looked abouve ur post i posted a new link >.<
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] AFAinHD:
Wow dude look before you post.

Sent from the phone everyone has forgotten about!
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] ayoteddy:
You could download other launchers from the market, and at the bottom of the first post I tell you how to get back any apps that aren't present that you want/need and I'll get it for you upon request. Glad that you liked the ROM though, I think if you kept it a bit longer and saw more of the changed it'd grow on you :)

Edit: I might post a Zip of the apps I removed in Themes and Apps Section for you guys to Unzip and push it to your system if you want them.

Sent from my T839 Sidekick 4G from xda app

Running Smooth Maximus ROM v1
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] ayoteddy:
Thanks ! I had a bit of a head start to be honest though I had CWM working about 4 days before its release for us lol.

Do you feel a speed difference ? With this ROM I'm closer to 1000 quadrant score (992) compared to average quadrant score on stock (880-920's). In the next update I will be adding edits to the build.prop and default.prop and more. After porting and solving FC's I had with a SK4G and SGS4G base I spent most of my time theming it to navigate from the ugly sidekick theme. You see a lot of color when using apps and stuff and the USB mount/Unmount pic I made looks awsome. There's just a lot of small things I changed to make a big difference hope you like the ROM overall !

Sent from my T839 Sidekick 4G from xda app

Running Smooth Maximus ROM v1
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] ayoteddy:
The one thing you did wrong was wipe with the 4.x.x version on CWM that you get from ROM manager, downlod the CWM3xx I attached it the second post and put it on the Sd card. After installing packages do not wipe ! Go to install zip from SD card and install the CWM3xx . With this CWM you can wipe and proceed to the installation intructions for the ROM. Don't overthink, you'll scare youself from learning

Sent from my T839 Sidekick 4G from xda app

Running Smooth Maximus ROM v1
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] sduvick:
The colors look wonderful, it does seem somewhat faster to me. the only thing I can see now is my personal preference to add transparency haha :] I may make a lighter version of this as well, depending on how light the transparency makes it.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] jahnbodah:
seem like cwm froze...

(I am using the new updated cwm that you provided, put on sd, renamed to update.zip)

Wiping data

Formatting /data...

Formatting /cache...

E:format_volume failed to unmount "/cache"

formatting /sd-ext

Formatting /sdcard/.android_secure....

Been sitting like this for a while now... :(

EDIT: pulled battery, restarted in recovery, tried wipe again, seems to have worked.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] Datlilboricua:
yes

well u beat me to it now i gota start another project lol i had a honeycomb theme started but no where close to finished ill just start a new one i cant beat this one its too pefect good work man its awsome

heres a wallpaper u might like for the theme:)
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] ayoteddy:
Lol Thanks a lot I'm really glad you like it. And thanks for the wallpaper aswell, I'll see about adding it to the wallpapers in the TWwallpaper chooser along with other wallpapers to match the theme in future update
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] ayoteddy:
Good to see you got through that. let me know how the installation goes and what ya think about the ROM :)
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] krylon360:
New kernel will be out today ;)
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] jomarxx:
Niceeeee!
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] ayoteddy:
Awsome, please know we appreciate the time you put into helping making our phones better. if you could enable bootanimation.zip from the kernel like you done the sgs4g that would be nice also

Also are you aware of ROM managers version of cwm's problem
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] jahnbodah:
Installation was fine! So, whats up with having to unmount system? never had to do that on other phones and such. (just curious)

As for what I think about the rom...

Looks good, runs AMAZING! ...launcher(s) suck big hairy ones though. of course that is personal opinion. Try GOlauncher, works VERY well with this rom, and looks really good with it too!

If I was to change one thing in the rom... it would be to make golauncher default install.

of course, that is based on personal opinion.

With a new kernel does that mean we can start working on CM7?
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] ayoteddy:
Yes I Use Go Launcher EX as my Personal default launcher aswell (with Honeycomb theme from the market) the launchers included are nice if you get used to them though but that's only if you like lite launchers .. I didn't want to include launcher over 1MB in this ROM. I'm Glad you like the ROM and thanks for the feedback !

As for CM7.. we most likely won't see that unless we have a GB kernel and that would take a lot of work. Mainly very difficult cause we don't have an official GB ROM/leak so things just wouldn't work
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] jahnbodah:
whaddabout sense or miui?

again, just curious.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] xmeatizmurderx:
Awesome ROM teddy! Super fast, boosted my quadrant scores by about 100. Just a suggestion: would there be a way to tweak the dual leds so we could really have more control over them in the settings? Might be fun for a future ROM or something those definitely make the phone stand out but we can't really utilize them as they are
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] jahnbodah:
The biggest request I have... (and its a doozy) is to have software keyboard work in landscape mode.

...I got that baseball game from amazon when it was free, hardware keyboard does not work, and software keyboard does not work in landscape... so game is unplayable...

So, if you could get software keyboard working in landscape, that would be swell.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] sduvick:
That probably won't be possible/feasible until we get a working port of AOSP/CM, as that functionality is not built at all into touchwiz. Perhaps it will be a part of GB, but I doubt it.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] badboi_zero:
I know the lagfix thing isn't implemented yet without a new kernel. But based on the stock performance, how fast is this rom? I hear it's faster. But does it lag as slowly as it did stock?
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] sduvick:
it's faster than before, about 100 points higher on quadrant, so about 1/10th faster.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] Reviewers:
I don't like the XPERIA ARC Launcher , too bad . :O

Wish the other one was 7 page's .

Put PowerAMP instead of this music player coming with the ROM & a few cool widget's . PM me for more info.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] Reviewers:
As i said 9/10 for the candidate release , but once the change's are undergone it will be a solid 10/10 . Answer my PM
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] ayoteddy:
If you'd like a better way to contact me use the Gtalk app on your phone. I'm on most of the time including now .. my email is ayoteddy@gmail.com
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] Reviewers:
Haha , let me finish up playing my tekken 6 anyway my phone is in the next room & isn't talking . & we deff have to talk about adding more stuff , to make it even better !
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] Reviewers:
I just added you on GTALK , i added you but don't see you add me .

AEFreshKid97@gmail.com
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] badboi_zero:
The rom so far is pretty wicked. Just some suggestions:

You should include a stock experience smooth maximus rom, like stock font, transitions, no themed apps, etc. For example, I do like the black Market theme. But Since everything is dark I'd like to keep that stock appearance as to break from the dark theme of the phone UI. Maybe add a zip that can flash the rom to a stock experience.

All in all I do like the rom. Sucks I didn't make a nand before flashing so it's good things turned out fine. I guess I was so anxious to try out the first SK rom and alleviate some of the speed issues of the stock build. Keep up the good work. People will donate to your efforts ;-)

Edit: I'm guessing we can always go to the kitchen and cook stuff to how we want, correct? If so, don't worry about including a stock experience rom version. Or either way don't worry for now. Just keep doing what you're doing for the Sidekick community. Furthering your current work is more important.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] ayoteddy:
I can make a flashable to revert to the stock framework, but not for most of the apps it would break other apps causing force closes.. messing up the system. If this ROM was build from 100% sidekick reverting to stock apps would be easier
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] yogi2010:
my new Sidekick arrived earlier than expected, so i followed the directions closely and the ROM flashed perfectly. seems to run very smooth and really looks awesome! thanks ayoteddy for getting this out so soon! incredible for only a 'release candidate'!
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] bburke88:
I'm having an issue gettin cwm 3.xxx to work... no idea how to flash it.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] Reviewers:
You don't flash that , Listen .

Download the recovery from ROM Manager , boot into recovery , reinstall package's

then put ROM in root of SDCARD & follow instruction's .
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] yogi2010:
I got stuck there for a minute myself. what stage are you at now? did you flash CWM 4.xx thru Rom Manager, then 'reinstall packages'? after that you should be in CWM 4.xx, and then you can just flash CWM 3.xx that ayoteddy posted.

Edit: forgot to remind you that in order to get into CWM at all, you gotta put that modified recovery binary from Krylon's thread into your system/bin.

Sent from my HTC Vision
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] bburke88:
Where do I go to reinstall packages?
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] Reviewers:
Install the Modified Recovery then put it in the root of your /SDCARD

Download Root Manager , R/W then Rename Recovery to Recovery.bak in System/bin then put the Modified Recovery in the SDCARD in the System/bin then install Recovery from ROM manager then reinstall package's , then follow instruction's , hope i helped .
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] yogi2010:
That is done in the stock recovery.

Sent from my SGH-T839
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] badboi_zero:
Hey teddy, can you post or send me the stock swype apk? I prefer the stock colors. I'm into the magenta shift key, lol.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] Reviewers:
Are you on GTALK right now teddy ?
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] bburke88:
I got the rom installed, however, I did it differently then the described way.

I already had the old cwm installed (with the mismapped keys). I pushed krylons binary files. (With root explorer). I booted into recovery, flashed the cwm 3.xxx, then set the mounts as described in the 2nd post. Didn't wipe. Then flashed the rom. It automatically rebooted and viola, the rom works great.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] orthopak:
Awesome rom, works great with GoLauncher. Runs a lot smoother and faster than the stock rom. I noticed that there was a big lag when you power on and unlock from the lock screen on the stock sidekick and hated the phone because of it. This helps big time. Keep it up and can't wait for more.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] xmeatizmurderx:
Just google swype and you can download the apk directly from their website
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] Reviewers:
This channel will come within a week .

http://www.youtube.com/MaximusSK4G , I used the name of the first custom ROM as my channel as well as i will be supporting it .

If anybody need's help ever with the SK4G PM me on youtube & ill see what the next video will be .
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] ayoteddy:
Wow thanks bro, if you plan on making any videos.. you should make the first ROM review for the first custom Sidekick 4G ROM ;)
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] ayoteddy:
In the next update the Bali 1.0 kernel will be included.. this ROM plays very well with that kernel. Battery and responsiveness will easily be noticed to perform much better after a few days of use. Glad that you like the ROM please enjoy
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] Trev420:
i really appreciate the work you guys are putting in to the SK.

i bought my girlfriend the sidekick, and she loves it. she just hates some of the small bugs the phone shipped with and the unresponsiveness sometimes.

as a vibrant owner, i know full well that developer support is whats gonna make the sidekick a winner.

im about to root her phone, it seems pretty simple (like the vibrant was, almost the same process) but im alittle scared to flash this rom, well because the CWM **** is making me scratch my head a bit.

As a video, can you do a step by step walk through of the install process of the newer CWM and the rom flash? sure, might sound simple, but i think its something that would help many people including myself.

thanks guys. its gonna be hard to wait for a vid, so im gonna try everything anyways, just hope i dont brick her phone lol.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] Trev420:
also, is there going to be an update anytime soon? should i wait to flash?

my girlfriend kinda despises the default lockscreen for some reason. is it possible to add an options for different a lockscreen?
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] ayoteddy:
You can go ahead and flash the next few updates will be minor or so.. &nd I'll get you a flashable back to default lockscreen when I get on the computer
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] Trev420:
Cool. But I meant the whole sidekick lockscreen even stock. She prefers the look of the regular lockscreen of my galaxy s. Can u add some of those in next update or is it to much trouble then its worth?
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] Trev420:
well i realized that ur CWM talk in the OP was only if i downloaded it from rom manager.

but i followed the thread by Krylon so all that bold CWM stuff didnt even apply to me.

anyways, flashed the rom, followed by the kernal, and my girlfriend is amazed at the difference.

thanks for ur hard work.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] Reviewers:
Hope you like it remember Smooth Maximus is on RC1 , V1.0 so we will be getting more version's .
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] dagod80:
this rocks

Thanx for all ur hard work teddy. This is definitely smooth(no pun intended). I love the animations.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] Reviewers:
that's why my youtube name is MaximusSK4G & my Twitter is MaximusSK4G , Named after the first custom ROM ;]

Im going to post a video on how to flash the SK4G Rom , but i woulden't actually do it , i would show how to but not do it .

btw hop on gtalk .
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] Reviewers:
You can't brick your phone by doing this .

Root her phone , Put CWM on root of SDCARD then download root explorer , go to /system/bin rename recovery.bin to recovery.bak then copy the recovery.bin in the root of sdcard (krylons) then put it in /system/bin . Once your done go to rom manager install Sidekick 4G recovery then boot into recovery then reinstall all packages , once your done , you put the ROM in the root of SDCARD follow the instruction's in this thread & you should be fine . Do everything for first STEP's then reboot . If stuck on boot screen you can always ODIN it back to default . Check out my AIO thread
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] badboi_zero:
Sucks the light blue theme isn't here. I preferred that over the stock blue one. Any chance you can implement that on the next update?

Edit: I found a bug. I don't know how to replicate it. But after a while I would notice that the lockscreen has the music widget activated, though I have never used it because I ue poweramp. I can get rid of the lockscreen widget by closing "Music" in Task Manager. However, pushing the volume keys would wake the phone up when the screen is off. So I have to restart to get rid of the issue.

It may be worth noting that I have gosms pro. And with that I use it to select ringtones and stuff (not the stock android popup with your notifications and such only available within whatever folder, ie ringtones in ringtones folder, alarms in alarms folder, etc.) I use gosms pro because I have the option to select a song instead of the folder list setup.

So I will reset defaults and use the stock android system when selecting notification tones and see how that goes.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] theronnightstar:
I would have loved to play with the Xperia launcher since it looked awesome. The problem is that I could not get it to rotate to landscape mode for anything. All the other launchers did (stock, GoLauncher EX, and AmbientTime Home) so I have to assume it was Xperia itself. So far that is my only problem with this ROM. Absolutely loving it otherwise. I wish all early android roms worked this smooth out of the gate :D
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] ayoteddy:
the Xperia Launcher doesnt work in landscape but its very smooth and light on RAM usage, as well the AmbientTime Launcher. ive included these in the ROM to keep everything as fast as possible. After installing the ROM you can Download/Use the Launcher of your choice
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] yogi2010:
How do you get AmbientTime to display in Landscape? I would like to use that launcher, but I haven't figured out how to get it into Landscape mode.

Sent from my SGH-T839
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] Reviewers:
you can't . :[
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] yogi2010:
Dang, I would so use that launcher... love the black Google Search ;)

Sent from my SGH-T839
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] badboi_zero:
After a while the volume keys can wake up the screen regardless if the music widget came on. Idk what's making it do so. I have widget locker installed but disabled. I'll try uninstalling that and see how it turns out.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] yogi2010:
Does anyone know, is there a trick to getting Titanuim Backup to acquire root priveledges on this ROM? I have usb debugging enabled, but it keeps failing when I open the app. In the past, there used to be an option in TB to 'get Busybox', but I don't see that anymore.

It seems like when I flash the ROM fresh, I get this error, and then eventually it just works. But I'm wondering how to get it working right away.

Update: I think the problem was from having restored my apps with Mybackup Pro.... uninstalled and reinstalled Titanium Backup, and it worked fine right away :D

Sent from my SGH-T839
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] droctii:
Ok, so I followed the instructions...did full wipe, etc. but had some issues on my wife's phone. No worries...went back to CWM and wiped again and tried to do a fresh install....

After going through the whole install procedure the phone rebooted itself (without me pressing anything) and now is BRICKED. I can't even enter recovery. I've tried Vol Down + Power and Vol Down + Vol Up + Power and nothing. It's stuck on the Splash screen.

This sucks because I told her it was ok...I've done is on a heap of other phones (from my G1, two MT3G slides, Nexus One, 2 MT4Gs, Evos, etc.) never had a brick before. Any ideas?
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] yogi2010:
I'm not sure what happened there, but you will probably have to Odin back to stock and start over. Can you get into download mode(volume down + trackpad + power)? Full instructions are in the Odin thread.

Sent from my SGH-T839
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] droctii:
Thanks. Can't even boot into download mode. Looks like a full brick. On my way to see the magenta folk.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] badboi_zero:
I think the volume key wake lock is connected to poweramp. On a side note, when locking the phone with the keyboard exposed, putting it on sleep, closing the phone will also wake the phone up. Never had that on stock.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] droctii:
Update:

They are a franchise store no corporate stores within 2 hours drive. They will mail me a new one in a few days.

Also, things look bleak because when I put the charger in the phone it ahows an empty battery and the spinning progress wheel is stuck. And I know the battery is not dead.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] yogi2010:
Almost certainly you are not fully bricked. Sometimes you have to trick the phone into download mode, but you almost surely can do it. What I do is plug the phone into the computer with a usb cable, let the empty battery icon come up, then hold down volume-down and and the trackball, and then also press power, and hold all 3 until the yellow download screen pops up. Mess around with, you can do it... read into the Odin thread for other tricks for getting into download mode. But if you at least have an empty battery icon, you aren't fully bricked.

Sent from my SGH-T839
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] ayoteddy:
Trust me you are not bricked.. that is just a soft brick.

Use this method to get into download mode.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] tweeklulz:
people don't like to read it seems :rolleyes:
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] tweeklulz:
I'm not having this problem and I'm running Smooth Maximus+Bali. I'm using Ambient Time as my launcher.. could that be it?

E: the volume rocker wakes my phone up :<

but the keyboard exposed thing doesn't
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] ayoteddy:
Do you guys have alt. Lockscreens installed ? My vol keys don't wake the phone. Used to when I had widgetlocker
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] Datlilboricua:
Mines does I never had a alt lockscreen and my music app never leaves my lockscreen wich dosent bother me at all either of the problems

And volume up does wake my phone dosent bother me either lol

Sent From My Rooted Sidekick 4g XDA Premium App
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] tweeklulz:
I use the stock sidekick lock screen

E: it's not much of a bother, just letting you know
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] badboi_zero:
Ayo, teddy, I did use widgetlocker and volume keys would wake the phone. But when I disabled it it wouldn't anymore. This was on stock unrooted. But now on this I have even uninstalled poweramp and widgtlocer, restarted, and the issue still replicated itself.

Back on stock, waing the phone up to the lockscree would turn it back asleep after about 5 seconds. Now waking the phone up will take whatever time you selected (30 secs in my case) before going back to sleep. It's as if the phone is unlocked but is just showing the lockscreen, if that makes sense. That's why it acts this way. Some times after 30 secs it would be normal; volume keys won't wakelock. But some times not. Idk what's the cause.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] orthopak:
My purple LED light does not go off when I miss a text message. Is anybody else having this problem?
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] clockedtouch:
Found a bug had it flashed and running awesome on the wifey's phone then the auto rotate feature stopped so i decided to reboot. Once it turned on again it deleted all downloaded apps. I then tried to re-flash and it soft bricked the sk4g.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] azcledel:
Kudos just got it installed and running looks pretty damn sexy so far good work!
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] tweeklulz:
There is no autorotate on the home screen, but it works for all other applications afaik